The scientific circle at home and abroad consider the History Faculty as a school of Vietnam s modern historical science. Former students of the pedagogical universities of Hanoi and Quy Nhon and the universities of Hue and Ho Chi Minh City where Professor Dinh Xuan Lam has been teaching will always bear in mind the image of their dear teacher. And so do the students of the Ho Chi Minh National Political Institute, the mass schools of the Women s Union and Youth League, and others. So far, he has rendered his guidance to thirty post-graduates to have successfully defended their doctorate theses and participated in tens of examination boards either in the capacity of chair person, critic or member. That is not to mention that he has been invited as an education expert to give lectures at a number of foreign universities such as Madagascar, France, the Netherlands, etc.
Teaching means giving lectures and also doing research.
The deeper the research is made, the better the teaching will be. Throughout more than fifty years of my teaching career, I have nothing to worry about or regret, and if there is life after death, I wish I could be a teacher again.