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UNESCO adopts commemoration of celebrity Chu Van An’s death

Vietnam’s proposal for commemorating the 650th anniversary of the death of renowned teacher Chu Van An in 2020 was approved at UNESCO’s Executive Board Meeting in Paris, France, on April 16 along with 48 of 71 other applications submitted by 41 countries.
UNESCO adopts commemoration of celebrity Chu Van An’s death ảnh 1The UNESCO office in France (Source: AFP/ VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam’s proposal for commemorating the 650th anniversary ofthe death of renowned teacher Chu Van An in 2020 was approved at UNESCO’s Executive Board Meeting in Paris, France, onApril 16 along with 48 of 71 other applications submitted by 41 countries.

Thenominations were deemed consistent with the mission of UNESCO across education,culture, science, information and communication, and contributed to promotingpeace, cultural dialogue, mutual understanding among nations.

Chu Van An (1292 - 1370) is considered a brilliant teacher of Vietnam, whodevoted his life to the humanistic education philosophy of regardless of hisstudents’ wealth, teaching that learning goes hand in hand with practice and lifelonglearning contributes to society.

His thoughts not only affected many generations of Vietnamese but alsocontributed to the development of humanistic values in the region. Hiseducational perspective has progressive values, close to the modern values thatUNESCO summarised as “learning to know, learning to do, learning to live togetherand learn to be humans”.

UNESCOhas previously honoured Vietnamese celebrities, including the commemoration ofthe 600th anniversary of Nguyen Trai's birth (1980), the 100th birthday ofPresident Ho Chi Minh (1990) and the 250th birthday of Nguyen Du (2015).

UNESCO's adoption of the 650th anniversary of the death of Chu Van An showsinternational appreciation for the cultural and educational values of Vietnam,while promoting the goal of education equality for all people and lifelonglearning that UNESCO is promoting.

Under UNESCO’s regulations, the 40th UNESCO General Assembly Meeting inNovember will issue a resolution on celebrating the outstanding events andcharacters of the world.

AVietnamese delegation led by Le Hoai Trung, Deputy Foreign Minister and Chairmanof the Vietnam National UNESCO Commission, attended activities in UNESCO’s Executive Board Meeting from April 3-17.-VNA
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