To better the quality and efficiency of education, and to enable education and training to become a top-level national policy, the foundation and driving force for national industrialization and modernization, our Party has advocated a comprehensive reform of education and training, especially a full awareness of Ho Chi Minh's educational philosophy in the on-going educational revival. This paper presents some of Ho Chi Minh’s important philosophies of education, and the current application of those philosophies to renovate the management of general education for ethnic minority areas by some mountainous provinces in Northern Vietnam.