At the beginning of national language education in Vietnam, Truong Vinh Ky is considered a “pioneer” in many issues: the first teacher of the national language, the first national language linguist, and the first national language journalist who served as chief editor of the first national language newspaper. Truong Vinh Ky life has undergone many arduous times and has been evaluated in many different respects, but it is undeniable that his great contributions to the Vietnamese culture during the period of transmutation from the Middle Ages to the Modern period. In particular, his conception of education which has a lot of progress that is still meaningful until today. By using methodologies such as statistics, analysis-synthesis, and comparison, this paper clearly points out Truong Vinh Ky’s progressive educational viewpoints, including: building a national education, for the development of the Vietnamese nation; objectives and knowledge attached to practice; excellent teacher’s standards. These are still the central objectives of Vietnamese education