Foxconn Case Study
Business Ethics Individual Report
Name: Tran Tuan Linh
ID: 12212205
Country from: Vietnam
Value system chosen: “Achievement Disease in Education”
1. In any country, education plays a very important role to promote the development of all economics and society. However, with methods of education for so long which do not fit the requirements of the new era, Vietnam education is producing passive “people” who is good at theory but bad at practice. Students and even teachers nowadays are always under a great deal of pressure from the so-called “Achievement disease”. Vietnamese obsession of having any type of “achievement” creates a negative effect in education. While students are having pressure of getting good grades in order to fulfill their parents’ will, teachers also have to make sure all of their students receive good marks to meet the school’s decided achievement. This might sound obvious, however there are students who are good at math but not good in science, who loves study and who don’t. As a result, academic dishonesty like cheating exam is likely to be occur frequently these days. My attempt in this paper is to contribute my voice to acknowledge and make people understand more about this fact in education in Vietnam as well as giving suggestion to eliminate this situation.
2. The definition of “Achievement Disease”:
“Achievement” simply is an accomplishment in whatever goals you’ve set for yourself, not necessarily earning a lot of money. Achievement is doing what you want to do within the bounds of the law. It is the pursuit of dreams. It is liberty from the chains of fear and unbelief. It is recognition of what makes you unique and what you have to offer others. It is the realization, the substance, and the tangibility of a dream fulfilled.
Thus, we can understand that “Achievement Disease in education” is a type of disease which people try seeking to pursues achievements at any cost even with doing dishonesty or
Name: Tran Tuan Linh
ID: 12212205
Country from: Vietnam
Value system chosen: “Achievement Disease in Education”
1. In any country, education plays a very important role to promote the development of all economics and society. However, with methods of education for so long which do not fit the requirements of the new era, Vietnam education is producing passive “people” who is good at theory but bad at practice. Students and even teachers nowadays are always under a great deal of pressure from the so-called “Achievement disease”. Vietnamese obsession of having any type of “achievement” creates a negative effect in education. While students are having pressure of getting good grades in order to fulfill their parents’ will, teachers also have to make sure all of their students receive good marks to meet the school’s decided achievement. This might sound obvious, however there are students who are good at math but not good in science, who loves study and who don’t. As a result, academic dishonesty like cheating exam is likely to be occur frequently these days. My attempt in this paper is to contribute my voice to acknowledge and make people understand more about this fact in education in Vietnam as well as giving suggestion to eliminate this situation.
2. The definition of “Achievement Disease”:
“Achievement” simply is an accomplishment in whatever goals you’ve set for yourself, not necessarily earning a lot of money. Achievement is doing what you want to do within the bounds of the law. It is the pursuit of dreams. It is liberty from the chains of fear and unbelief. It is recognition of what makes you unique and what you have to offer others. It is the realization, the substance, and the tangibility of a dream fulfilled.
Thus, we can understand that “Achievement Disease in education” is a type of disease which people try seeking to pursues achievements at any cost even with doing dishonesty or