... the society. The strain of religion, the white Catholics vs. the protestant whites. There was limited amount of Protestant missionaries and a entrenched Roman Catholic citizenry, who maintained their own system of religiously funded schooling. The British government had been prejudice against the Catholic Church and there were constant educational battles between catholic and protestant programs of education, which continued into the 20th century. By 1900, the question of whether education should be secular or religious was a pertinent issue. Under Lord Harris the education ordinance of 1851 was implemented where each ward would have a school, and it also established that each of the schools would be secular not sectarian in orientation However, this system was laden with problems. They was not enough schools to serve the needs of the population. There were language problems in the established schools, since the only language of instruction was English and the ...

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