Education of Ho Chi Minh’s Moral Example for Students in Vietnam Nowadays

Abstract

Ho Chi Minh was one of the thinkers and revolutionary activists who had special interest in morality. In anywhere or at any time, Ho Chi Minh always first spoke and wrote about morality. More importantly, Ho Chi Minh always acted and behaved in accordance with moral standards that he set. Ho Chi Minh not only left a moral ideological system but also an example of the moral standards that he raised. Ho Chi Minh's thought and moral example were not only of great value to revolutionary work of national liberation but in the current period of national development, becoming a solid spiritual foundation of life in Vietnamese society. Vietnamese students are educated youth, a source of high quality labor of society, is generation that continues the legacy of ancestor's revolution. In order to do that, to promote the strength of Vietnamese youth in the work of building and defending the country requires the family, school and society to take care of them and educate them and the formation of revolutionary moral characteristics for students is determined to be fundamental. Ho Chi Minh was the pure embodiment, the most typical of the pure and beautiful moral qualities; therefore, education of Ho Chi Minh's moral example becomes a matter of necessity. In this article, the author focuses on clarifying basic issues, namely: the concept of students and the education of Ho Chi Minh's moral example for students; Ho Chi Minh's moral example and contents of Ho Chi Minh's moral example needed to educate Vietnamese students nowadays. Keywords : education, normal example, Vietnam DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/10-4-12 Publication date: February 29 th 2020