Answer:
The French educational policy aimed to introduce western education so that the Vietnamese imbibe western ideas and modern ways of life.
For Vietnamese this meant a major break from their own identity.
In school textbooks Vietnamese were represented as primitive and backward and capable only of manual labour but not fit for intellectual reflection. The Vietnamese students resented this.
In 1926, the girls and students refused to obey the orders of the principals. Schools became an important place for political and cultural battle's. The Vietnamese realised that the French sought to strengthen their rule in Vietnam through the control of education.
Vietnamese intellectuals feared that Vietnam was not just losing control over their country but losing its very identity; its own culture and customs were being devalued and the people were developing master-slave mentality.
This battle against French colonial education became part of the larger battle against colonialism.
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