ABSTRACT
European contact with the Gold Coast, now Ghana, brought things good as well as things evil and today many people seem to share the views of Sir Herbert Stanley, that ‘of the good things that it has brought we have to thank the Christian missionaries for the best’, that is, the schools. Even though the government showed some interest in the schools and made attempts to control, or at least participate in, their administration, it was not until the governorship of Sir Gordon Guggisberg, one of the chief protagonists of the Phelps-Stokes Report on Education,2 that the partnership of church and state in educational matters became fully operative. Before then the schools had been almost entirely financed by the missions but thereafter the government assisted them by giving grants-in-aid because of its quest for the orderly development of the country. Under this system there were four kinds of schools: government, assisted, missions, and private.
