How to build a cultured person?

Along with choosing a qualified "leader", it is necessary to have a clear qualitative and quantitative value system in assessing what a cultured person is...

In the draft document of the 12th Party Congress, the general tasks for the next 5 years emphasize the content of building Vietnamese culture and people to meet the requirements of sustainable national development and firmly protect the socialist Fatherland.

According to many experts, the draft's emphasis on cultural issues, in which the human issue is placed first, is completely correct in both theory and practice. However, there needs to be practical and specific solutions to organize implementation and clearly define the roles of agencies, organizations, and even individuals related to the fields of culture, education, and people.

Associate Professor, Dr. Trinh Thi Kim Ngoc, former head of the Department of Human and Cultural Research, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, said that the Draft Report's mention of the issue of building culture and developing people is unreasonable.

Associate Professor, Dr. Trinh Thi Kim Ngoc commented that building culture and economy are two important pillars of national development, but how to build human morality at a time when social morality is declining and superstition is appearing quite a lot...

During the renovation process, the country has achieved many important achievements, especially material changes, but human morality has declined. In the cadre team, from a part degenerating to a not small part of cadres with positions and power degenerating. If this part continues to develop, how can the country develop?

“In the upcoming Congress, we need to invest in human development and cultural development because that is the survival of the country. If we move towards socialism, we must build socialist people. This is the key and most essential area in all areas of life,” Associate Professor, Dr. Trinh Thi Kim Ngoc suggested.

Mrs. Pham Thi To.

Ms. Pham Thi To, Vice President of the Vietnam Food Safety Association, said that human development is a key issue in Party building, this is a key issue in Party building. Resolution 4 of the 11th Central Committee also clearly stated that "there is a large number of cadres and Party members who have degraded in morality, losing the people's trust...". I think the problem here is how the Party must regain the people's trust. In the past, people went to the battlefield with enthusiasm and never thought about anything, because they had absolute trust in the Party. People see the Party through its Party members, if there are many corrupt Party members, how can we gain the people's trust?" - Ms. Pham Thi To worried.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Cuc, member of the Executive Committee of the Vietnam Women Intellectuals Association, Standing Committee member of the Vietnam Food Safety Science and Technology Association, is also concerned because currently in society, ethics are developing in a rather worrying direction. Students swear, fight in schools, families, and villages. On the street, when they see someone in trouble, everyone walks away or passes by as if it is none of their business, no one stops to help the person in trouble...

How to build a cultured person?

Ms. Nguyen Thi Cuc said that, regarding cultural development and human development, we cannot speak in general terms. We must build what makes a happy person, what makes a good person... The draft needs to clearly state that it "focuses on building a cultured person".

“To be a human being, the first thing is to be educated and cultured. A cultured person must be responsible for himself, his family and society. The document talks a lot about culture, but there must be specific criteria and must emphasize that we must first build cultured people. In the next development process, knowledge comes,” said Ms. Nguyen Thi Cuc.

According to Ms. Pham Thi To, the document also needs to clearly state the building of the Vietnamese people's lifestyle, one of the factors that guide actions and perceptions is works of art. "Action is only right when perception is right. There needs to be people with capacity and vision in society to guide this. There needs to be a correct perspective and a correct way of doing things. In the past, just by listening to Uncle Ho's New Year's greetings, everyone understood the human condition and saw what they had to do and how to do it. For example, Uncle Ho's New Year's greeting poem in 1969 "For independence, for freedom/Fight to make the Americans go away, fight to make the puppets fall/Forward! Soldiers, compatriots/North and South reunite, what spring is happier than this"... Just those few sentences are enough for people to understand what they have to do, it has a great sense of encouragement... It is also necessary to review the orientation, because now in society, at the slightest touch, people can behave rudely towards each other, even stab and slash each other...".

Dr. Nguyen Thi Xuan Thao, Association of Women Intellectuals of the University of Commerce, said that the educational responsibility of each family towards the young generation needs to be given more attention and importance, not blaming the mistakes and moral decline of the young generation solely on the education and training sector.

Mr. Nguyen Huu Oanh.

“In reality, no matter how good the school’s moral education is, if parents and family members are not exemplary and are not good examples, and there are many social evils, moral education in schools is ineffective, even counter-educational. Educating people requires a close combination between family, school and society, not just through words but through mechanisms, regulations, clear and complete sanctions and even legal institutions,” Dr. Nguyen Thi Xuan Thao suggested.

According to Mr. Nguyen Huu Oanh, former Deputy Head of the Government Committee for Religious Affairs, regarding cultural development and building new people, the main reason for the lack of attention from the authorities at all levels, the lack of decisive leadership, and the slow concretization of the Resolution... However, this is only a part, the main reason is still due to the selection of a "locomotive" who is not qualified enough. "When choosing a commander of a sector, it must be someone who has knowledge of the sector and the field he is in charge of. Do not let the situation of arranging enough people, people with knowledge in one field are in charge of another field. The reason is also partly due to poor personnel organization"./.

According to VOV.VN