Solutions to Improve the Effectiveness of Moral Education for Vietnamese Students Today

Comprehensive human development is an important content in Ho Chi Minh's thought on human beings. "To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people". A comprehensive person is someone who has both virtue and talent, of which virtue is the root. Virtue is morality, but unlike conservative morality which aims at personal glory, the new and great morality serves the common interest of the communist party, the people, and mankind. The basic requirements of that morality are being loyal to the country and faithful to the people, loving people, being diligent, thrifty, honest, righteous, and selfless, and having a proletarian International spirit. Talent means a person's capability to fulfill assigned tasks, which is demonstrated through continuous learning and improvement of academic, scientific, technical, and theoretical qualifications. Vietnam is being strongly influenced by the trend of International integration with many complicated changes in society. In the face of manifestations of degradation in morality and lifestyle seen in students, moral education for Vietnamese students becomes even more important and necessary