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  Explain four features of the education being given in the Tonkin Free School which was started to provide the Western style of education in Vietnam.   

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                  The French people thought that it was the mission of the advanced countries like them to bring the benefits of civilisation to the backward Vietnamese. The four features of the education being given in the Tonkin Free School were                          (i) This school was started to provide Western style (ii) In the new education system more stress was given to science, hygiene and French.                    (iii) Along with the education, these schools encouraged the adoption of Western style such as having a short  haircut. (iv) These schools also encouraged the students to wear Western clothes and play the Western games like, tennis. For the traditional Vietnamese 'having short haircut' was a major cultural set back as they traditionally kept long hair. Thus, the establishment of new schools gave a major set back to the Vietnamese traditional culture.