Question

Why did the French thought that educating Vietnamese was necessary?

Answer 1

The people in the colonies pushed hard for more education: as old-school anti-French movements died out, many Indochinese especially Vietnamese wanted to either Easternize (following Japanese model) or Westernize (following French model) to fulfill the dream of liberating their country. They founded private schools (“tư thục” in Vietnamese) to accommodate ambitious individuals who for various reasons couldn’t get in the French programs. The most famous but short-lived was Đông Kinh Nghĩa Thục (1907) which the French shut down quickly due to fear of it serving as incubator for subversive activities. By the end of the 1930s, there were many of these private schools throughout Vietnam.

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