Objectives in the Education of Colonial Peoples

Abstract

AN afternoon session on September 2 of Section L(Education) of the British Association during the meeting at New castle upon Tyne was devoted to a consideration of objectives in the education of Colonial peoples. The session was opened by a paper read by Mr. W. E. F. Ward, deputy educational adviser at the Colonial Office. Mr. Ward pointed out that most of the problems commonly met with in Colonial education—isolation, malnutrition, para sitic diseases and imperfect communications—are common to Colonies and Sovereign States. The core of the problem is to educate one race in an alien culture, in order that it may attain full world citizenship. So far as British territories are concerned, responsible self-government is an accepted ami of Colonial policy, and education must accordingly be planned with this in view.