General education must be truly multifaceted.

Education Law 2019, Article 29 states: General education helps students to develop comprehensively in morality, intelligence, physicality, aesthetics.... Thus, education mainly consists of 4 aspects, that is, education. tetrahedral education or multi-faceted education.


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However, in my opinion it is necessary to change the priority in the arrangement of educational aspects with the order of importance: Body, Germany, Tri, America.

Meaning: Health (Both physical and mental), social relations, understanding of the world, aesthetic competence (emotional and behavioral).

Why put health education (both physical and mental) first? Because that is the requirement of real life.

In practice this is the most necessary aspect of life, determines the rest and is therefore of first and foremost concern to everyone.

How is the new general education program different from the current one?

You must have good health to study and work, to be able to practice morality, intelligence, and aesthetic feelings.

Bringing health education to the forefront is a big change. To make that change, the education sector, from managers, researchers, to schools, teachers, from program building to program implementation, must put health education first. .

The process of children studying in high school (from 6 to 18 years old) is also the process of children growing up and becoming citizens of society.

Most of the time children live at school, 5/7 days a week, 8/16 hours a day. Therefore, schools must educate children on how to take care of their health in a scientific way, practice how to dress, rest, and how to fight harmful effects on health...

The school also needs to monitor the physical progress of students every year like tracking the results of subjects in the past.

At the end of each year, it is necessary to assess students for physical changes, compare them with age standards, what condition are they in, what is abnormal, what solutions are needed to intervene.

Schools and the state monitor students' health developments over the years and generations to assess changes in that process and take appropriate solutions to improve their health, height and weight. of teenagers and young adults.

Redistribute the program to ensure a balance of educational aspects

The real importance of educational aspects, in which the priority for health education must first be reflected in the time allocation for educational aspects in the program.

For example, in a primary education program with 2 lessons a day, 7 periods/day, and 31 lessons/week, in the weekly "tetrahedral education", it is necessary to spend approximately 8 hours on each side of education. .

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Health 8 hours, social relations 8 hours, world knowledge 8 hours, aesthetic ability 8 hours. Every day students are trained in these aspects in different forms.

The way to change that would be to actually reduce the cramming of the current curriculum in a radical way.

Those who are used to thinking that students go to school to learn subject matter will think that then students learn too little.

It should be conceived that students go to school to live and will learn through that life, not just learning during the hours devoted to subject knowledge.

When they practice their health, learn how to behave socially, learn the piano, learn to sing, learn to dance, learn to dance... they are learning and living, not just learning math and literature.

While the children learn about health, behavior, and aesthetics, they are also learning how to think (so far, it is a math show) and learn to use language to communicate (until now, it's been a stand-alone thing). performance of Literature-Vietnamese subject).

The curriculum of all levels above primary school, which is lower and upper secondary schools, must also be radically changed according to that concept.

Changing the structure of the high school and the structure of the teaching staff

In order to make such a great change of the general education program, it is necessary to change the conditions that entail the teaching staff and school facilities as well as the organization and management of the school.

So far, when it comes to education, people only think about imparting knowledge, so they only prepare the conditions for teachers and schools to do so.

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If you change the concept and really implement multi-faceted education, in the teaching staff of a school or a class, there must be enough people to carry out educational aspects such as health education, aesthetic education, there are nutritionists, psychologists, mental health experts, dance, singing, drawing teachers...

The physical conditions of the school must also be supplemented such as: playground, swimming pool, competition room, dance room, drawing room, consulting room...

Currently, a number of private schools have partly grasped the changing trend of education and the changing social needs, have invested in development in this direction and have attracted many students.

The Ministry of Education and Training needs to quickly grasp