The wisdom development of Vietnamese people in Tonkin with Franco-Vietnamese higher education during 1920-1945

Abstract

This article aims to state that Franco-Vietnamese higher education experienced a wisdom development during the colonial time in Tonkin and this educational system introduced a modern educational paradigm to local people and trained several Vietnamese intelligentsia in the early 20th century. In order to clarify that statement, this paper employs the study of documents, records, and archives and a socio-historical approach with a wide range of archived French source materials, and previous papers to shed the
light on the role of Franco-Vietnamese education in local education. Besides, the logical method goes hand in hand with that theory so as to concretize typical characteristics of Franco-Vietnamese education in Tonkin between the 1920s and 1945. First, it contributed to setting an early bird framework of the modern Vietnamese educational system. Second, this education plays a crucial role in training Westernized local intelligentsia with scientific knowledge and studying opportunities for indigenous people. These people became the first generation of lecturers and researchers for Vietnamese education since the post-August Revolution in Vietnam. Reassessing Franco-Vietnamese higher education is the recognition of modern French education in renovating backward education of Indochinese countries until the early 20th century.