No longer in operation, but still an important artifact to the historical society, Quoc Tu Giam stands in memory of the first official university of Vietnam. Built nearly over three centuries ago, these buildings represent the very place scholars and doctors attended in hopes of achieving the highest form of honor, an education that was earned only with the effort of the brightest and most hard-working students. A row of stone tablets with heads of turtles at the bottom display names of the most honorable students of the university that achieved the highest degree possible at the time, the degree of a doctor.
Inside one of the main buildings, a place of honor exists for the philosopher Confucius and his three most honorable students. On the second floor of the building, a statue stands in honor of a man that once worked in line of government for the imperial family Vietnam. Statues of kings are honored, as well as old artifacts of the university.
To this day, people still travel to the university to seek prayer from the great teachers and honor ancestors before them. On the day we visited, graduation pictures were being taken at the university, symbolizing the wealth of knowledge that exists in the walls of university.
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