Ho Chi Minh City (AsiaNews) - Education in Vietnam no longer cares for truth and integral human development of the younger generation. This warning has come from participants at a seminar on "Sharing the educational experiences of today’s schools," which was held at the Redemptorists headquarters in Ho Chi Minh City.
"I believe that educating means helping a person to grow and not just the transmission of knowledge and skills", says Fr. Gregory Nguyen Van Tan, provincial superior of the De La Salle congregation in Vietnam. "Since 1975 the revolutionary government has not allowed Catholics to manage schools, but we continue to work with young people. Certainly, if we had schools it would be much better. "
The participants at the conference agreed that the deterioration of education is attributable to a number of professors who merely transmit knowledge and skills but who do not address issues such as humanity and values as well as way in which humans should interact .
A young reporter in Saigon who declined to reveal his name tells AsiaNews that "many fashion and design colleges tell first-year students to be creative and design monstrous clothes, but they don’t teach them how to measure, cut and sew normal clothes”.
At the conclusion of the seminar, Fr. Vincent Pham Trung Thanh, Redemptorist provincial superior, concluded that We must not pass the buck or blame others, every Catholic must be like a candle, a light, to pray and to contribute to the education of families, the Church and society. "