The Education in Vietnam

I can only start off by saying how different the educational system is compared to what is here in Australia. You could say that in Vietnam, they know alot but don't know alot. Get what I'm saying?

Well, they study alot and know alot which makes them smart, yet the variety of technology and the availability to new information is just so poor. Because of this, most of the people in Vietnam do not know much.

As a matter of fact, I could only say that their level of Science has grown really slowly.

One day, I asked my parents if they knew that someone could survive without meat. Well, obviously they couldn't because they need the vitamins that could only be found in meat. Well, they answered no, but a no with a 'you must eat meat'. Sadly this is incorrect. Of course there are some foods such as Tofu that give the consumer the same vitamins. We sort of argued over this but of course, I was right.

So as you can see in the above paragraph, the Science taught in Vietnam is very poor. Even as I've heard many stories of my dad being very smart, etc. He did not know that tofu could be a meat substitute.

After having that arguement with my parents, it had made me think about the education in Vietnam.

When I was in year four, I had travelled back to Vietnam for a what-supposed-to-be 2 week vacation (until I realised I had so much fun that I forced my mum extend it to 6 week). Within this time, I was once told to read and do some maths questions. It was in Vietnamese so that didn't help, but I noticed that they taught year 7 maths to year 4s. Amazing huh? How do I know? It was asking for the area of a trapezium or so, and we haven't learned that until last year or so.

Not only that, but I could still remember the time when pumps were still used, even back when I was in year 4. It was amazing. The water was free and still is, but dirty.

Now with the improvement of technology, the life in Vietnam is slowly becoming better, but I'm still concerened about Vietnam's knowledge of Science. I'm sure that they haven't discovered the many bacteria. They don't even know about the many form of cancers that can appear, which leads me to another sad story which makes me look back and really make me close my eyes.

If you hadn't known, my grandpa on my father's side had died when I was 4. The people in Vietnam likes to smoke tobacco, and my grandpa just happened to be one of them. By his 60s, I guess he had throat cancer, and that's how he died. I was clueless, so I have decided to ask some of the old ladies that lived in our street.

My grandma told me that he died of something that she didn't know, and this old lady said that he died because he had this lump on the back of his neck.

Not long after, I could only realize that he died of throat cancer, with the evidence that I have picked up..

Now, I stare at my uncle, thinking that he could not help it but smoke once every 30 minutes..





I could still remember the time I was in this really old building for pre school. My mum walked past for the rice paddies.

I cried..

It shows how quickly life goes by..

And when I go back to Vietnam, I could still remember that building..

Only, it is now dilapidated.. unoccupied.