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What is dilemma of colonial education

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The Dilemma of Colonial education

The Dilemma of Colonial education

With the assumption of the superiority of their own culture, colonists set out to "civilise" the people.

While at one hand they were desirous of a local educated labour, they feared that education them may cause them to question the French rule as well as full French education may cause to French citizens living in Vietnam to lose their jobs to them

Teaching them French was an essential part as they needed to make them feel tied to France and view them as superior culture.

Chinese, spoken by the elite was to be replaced. After mulling over their options, Vietnamese was taught at lower levels and French after that.

Only elite Vietnamese had access to education, of which very few were passed to restrict their access to higher paying jobs

 

1907- Tonkin Free School started to provide western style Education

Students given lessons in science ,hygiene, French

Adoption of western styles like having a short haircut encouraged. Traditionally Vietnamese men kept their hair long

 

2.3 Resistance in Schools

With increasing Vietnamese teachers in lower levels, they started modifying text and criticising what was stated

1926-Major Protest Saigon Native Girls School stemmed from a expulsion of Vietnamese student when she refused to give her front seat to a French student.

Students started fighting colonial government preventing Vietnamese from qualifying for white collar jobs. By 1920s many political parties like Young Annan and nationalist journals like "Annanese Student" came out

Vietnamese intellectuals felt it was their duty to fight for their sense of dignity and self value which was being degraded
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Answer 2

The French colonization of Vietnam was justified in the name of it being a ‘civilising mission’. Education was seen as one way of civilising the ‘native’. However, the French colonizers of Vietnam were facing a dilemma in this regard. The colonial administration needed an educated local labour force to run the government. However, it was felt that once educated, nationalist forces would gain force and the educated Vietnamese might begin to question colonial domination. Moreover, French citizens living in Vietnam, called the colons, feared that they might lose their jobs - as teachers, shopkeepers, policemen - to the educated natives. Hence, they opposed policies that would give the Vietnamese full access to modern French education.