Re: Ti'nh ca'ch... (3)

[Tuan V Nguyen <t.nguyen@garvan.unsw.edu.au>]

Hello,

Phung Phuong Nam <ppn@iist.unu.edu> wrote
>cha`o ca'c ba'c,
>xin ho?i ca'c ba'c chi' khi' ngu+o+`i vie^.t ta nhu+ the^' na`o.
>trong li.ch su+? cho^'ng xa^m lu+o+.c va` du+.ng nu+o+'c,... chu'ng ta
>chi? co' nhu+~ng ngu+o+`i dde`n sa'ch ro^`i thi cu+? ra la`m quan, xong
>ro^`i tho^i, cha(?ng dde^? la.i cho con cha'u 1 chi'nh sa'ch, sa'ch
>lu+o+.c ,...

	Well, and Nam, right now, we still can see a lot of 
the so-called "intellectuals" in our community, who are 
more interested in showing off their degrees to the common 
people rather than contribute to human knowledge. You can 
open any Viet newspaper and see all sorts of congratulation 
of "Mr X has just graduated from university Y with 
distinction" or "Ms Z has become doctor of S" blah blah 
blah.

	About 100 yrs ago, Phan Chu Trinh lamented on the 
Vietnamese intellectuals: "We don't know lots of things, 
and we have few skills, Yet the Vietnamese scholars brag 
that they are best among the four classes of citizens . . . 
We learn by rote a few books, Then we used our degrees to 
snow the common men. The result is that we have a society 
of blind people fighting one another . . . My countrymen! 
Who among you have great dreams and care? Go! Go! Go to get 
knowledge and skills! Then come home to teach our 
compatriots on how to build the nation!" 

	I hope that we learn something from Mr Phan's words.


	Tuan