Explain the following:

Only one-third of the students in Vietnam would pass the school-leaving examination.

French doesn’t want Vietnamese to compete with them for better-paid jobs in Vietnam so, they plan the education system in the manner that only one-third of the students in Vietnam would pass the school-leaving examination. It was most announced by the French that those who would learn French and accept French culture would be rewarded with French citizenship. However, only a few elite Vietnamese could enroll in the schools, and among those admitted only a few ultimately passed the school-leaving examinations. So, they deliberately failed students, mainly in the final year, so they can’t compete with French. Usually, as two-third of the students failed and in 1925, out of population of 17 million, less than 400 passed the examination. School textbooks glorified the French and justified colonial rule and represented the Vietnamese as primitive and backward, capable of manual labour only. School children were taught that only French rule could ensure peace in Vietnam.