ABSTRACT
Accordingly while missions differ and the efficiency of teachers varies very greatly, there is a certain sameness about African education in every stage. A further element in the educational system is the apprentices who are to be found in most mission schools. The educational institute stands round a sort of campus, and the buildings are delightful. Yet masters with special interests, for examples phonetics, art, physical education, wood-work, agriculture and gardening, may be African or European and are appointed according to professional qualifications. From the point of view of administration there is a great deal to be said for large grants; from the point of view of education there is a great deal to be said for individual freedom. In Africa girls’ education, like that suggested for Sophie in Rousseau’s Emile, has been largely residual. They have taken what the men have left, or they have been trained for the man rather than for themselves.
