School Students in Vietnam Too Lazy, Educators Say

Educators are complaining about the virtues of school students nowadays, saying that they are lazy in expressing their opinions during lessons, and also at doing house work. Do Tan Ngoc, a teacher in Quang Ngai province, said that when it comes to expressing their opinions in class, students in higher grades tend to be lazier than those in lower grades. A teacher, who has been working for a high school in Hanoi, also said students rarely read lessons in advance at home. They are very passive in receiving knowledge from teachers: they just write down verbatim what their teachers say.  Lack of self-confidence and poor teaching method has been cited as reasons. What regularly happens during lessons is that teachers read the lecture and students take notes, educators explained. “Most of students go to extra classes at their teacher’s house, therefore, they do not pay attention during official lessons and express their opinions in front of the class,” they noted. These have resulted in the fact that almost Vietnamese students are good at theory, but weak at practices. Companies operating in Vietnam often complain that they have to re-rain workers after recruitments as their skills do not meet their working requirements. (VietNamNet Jan 11)