‘Educational Policy in Africa. A Memorandum Submitted on Behalf of the Education Committee of the Conference of Missionary Societies in Great Britain and Ireland’ (1924). Rhodes House Library Papers, J. H. Oldham Papers, mss Afr. S 1829, box 10, file 2, item 2

In some of the British Colonies and Protectorates in Africa the whole, and in most of the others at least nine-tenths, of native education is at present being given in mission schools. If adequate provision is to be made for the education of the African peoples this proportion must inevitably change. If effect is to be given to the statement made by the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies ¹ in the House of Commons in the debate on Empire Trade on April 10th, 1923, that in the administration of the Crown Colonies in Africa “the first duty is to give the native a chance to advance in the scale of civilisation and in moral and material prosperity,” far larger resources must be devoted to education than are at the command of the missionary societies. The guiding principles of the educational development which must take place claim the serious attention of both Missions and Governments.