Open the way to build personality for students

School education is a continuation and cannot replace family education in building personality and morality for students.

The issue of moral and personality education for students is increasingly focused on in schools. (Photo: Ngoc Lan)

The Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress clearly stated: "Strengthening the education of the young generation on revolutionary ideals, ethics, cultural lifestyle, enhancing patriotism, national pride, nurturing ambitions and aspirations to rise up; promoting the sense of responsibility towards the country and society; building an environment and conditions for studying, working, entertaining and training to develop healthily, comprehensively and harmoniously in terms of intelligence, physical strength and aesthetic values. Motivating young people to be proactive in studying, working creatively, starting a business and establishing a career; mastering modern scientific and technological knowledge, promoting an important role in the cause of building and defending the Fatherland".

It can be said that the issue of moral education and lifestyle for students in the current period is topical and urgent in order to find educational measures to prevent deviant behaviors.

Below are the opinions of experts to "open the way" for moral education for students in today's era.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pham Viet Vuong (Hanoi National University of Education): Building three "pillars" of education

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pham Viet Vuong.

Moral education is an important content in schools, contributing to the comprehensive personality education of students. Researching the theory and practice of moral education and lifestyle for students in the current period is topical and urgent. From there, find educational measures to prevent deviant behaviors in students and improve the quality of general education.

There are many reasons leading to deviant behaviors in ethics and lifestyle of students (due to psychological characteristics of age; due to family factors; development of the Internet, social networks; due to market mechanisms, globalization...).

To prevent deviant behavior of students, it is necessary to improve family education capacity. The education sector should compile documents on family education, ethics, traditional and modern lifestyles for students and parents to refer to.

At the same time, improve the quality of school education. Science and practice both confirm that the best way to educate students about ethics and lifestyle is through teaching science subjects to enhance their cognitive abilities and independent thinking. Improve the quality of teaching social sciences, ethics, civics, history, etc. Coordinate between educational forces, build a close relationship between the three "pillars": family - school - society to solve situations that may occur with students.

It can be said that moral and lifestyle education for students needs to affect all three aspects: awareness, attitude and behavior, helping them have enough knowledge, skills and confidence to handle all situations in social relationships. Therefore, it is necessary to use diverse and attractive methods and forms of organization suitable to the psychological characteristics of students' ages. In particular, schools need to coordinate with families, authorities and local agencies and organizations to promptly detect deviant behaviors inside and outside of school, to find timely measures to prevent and correct them.

Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Gia Cau (Editor-in-Chief of Vietnam Teachers Magazine): Creating "immunity" for students against bad things

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Gia Cau.

Moral and lifestyle education is directly related to the building of a cultural environment and school behavior. Morality and lifestyle are the core of culture. Moral and lifestyle education according to the standards of noble social values creates internal motivation for each student; urges them to study enthusiastically, be self-aware, actively participate in movements, and be "resistant" and "immune" to bad and negative things.

Thereby, contributing to building healthy, humane social relationships, which are the decisive factor, creating the foundation of a healthy cultural environment and cultural behavior in schools.

Therefore, it is necessary to build a more practical relationship between school and family. At the same time, families must pay more comprehensive and profound attention to moral education and lifestyle for young members. Deepen and more systematically coordinate education between the three environments: family - school - society, minimize school violence; the relationship between teachers and students, between schools and parents needs to be transformed in a positive direction.

Mahatma Gandhi - the great national hero of India once said: "There is no school as good as the family and no teacher as good as parents". In my opinion, parental education is really important. School education is only a continuation and cannot replace family education in building the personality of the young generation.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Dinh Tuan (Deputy Director of the Institute for Educational Development Cooperation): Take morality as the root!

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Tran Dinh Tuan.

In recent years, the situation of students violating ethics and the law has been causing public concern. The number of violations has increased, the violators are of all ages and levels of education; the level of violations is more serious... In particular, the state of ideological degradation, loss of confidence, indifference, apathy, loose lifestyle, and deviation of a part of students is a worrying risk.

Faced with that situation, it is necessary to come up with fundamental solutions to prevent the risk of moral degradation among students.

One is to build the school into a real center of moral education for students. Two is to clearly define the purpose and function of the process of moral and personality education for students in school.

Third, innovate the education program, increase the time and subjects of moral education in schools. Fourth, develop moral education content for each class and each level of education appropriate to the age. Finally, diversify the methods and forms of organizing moral education in schools.

The issue of improving the quality of moral education and preventing the risk of moral degradation among high school students in the current context is an urgent task for high schools and the entire education sector. The fundamental solution to prevent the risk of moral degradation among students is to thoroughly grasp the educational philosophy of "Learning manners first, then learning knowledge", truly taking morality as the foundation in building the current general education program and content.

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