ABSTRACT
Education among the Chiga contains none of the formal features which we so often find in East Africa. There is no development of the age-grade idea, no formal schooling, and very little compulsion of any sort. Chiga children, like Topsy, just grow. They learn the ways of their culture by observation and participation, and only occasionally by precept. And they grow up differing from each other in skills, interests, character and habits, but all within a limited range of cultural standardization. Many of the children learn to talk rather late, or at least do not use speech much. The babies seemed to rather silent and not given to making many random speech sounds. By the time children are six or so they are helping with many chores, and at eight or ten can do a number of tasks without supervision.
