ABSTRACT
The form of African education has been a matter of the perpetual criticism and controversy. The African school emphasizes the class-work side; the English school emphasizes the social side. The boarding-school in Africa is an attempt to provide for the African that general world of ideas in which the English child lives by the mere fact of being in a country where literature, the newspapers, and ordinary conversation assume those ideas. Ideas of the responsibility and self-government which are learned only in the artificial segregation of a boarding-school are apt to wither in the open air, particularly if there is a great difference between the society inside and the society outside. If the arrangements of the boarding-school are emphasized as the agency for the production of character, that character will have no relation to a society with different social arrangements.
