... on education, especially primary school education. While parents saw education as a means to provide social stability for their children, the land owners saw education as irrelevant in the agricultural community. Although the government provided funds for maintenance of schools and salary for teachers, they had no control over how the money was spent. Neither was there any surveillance over the quality or the qualifications of the teachers. Education therefore was still in the hands of private institutions and the churches. Apart from race and colour, identify two other features in society which were reflected in the schools Apart from race and colour, two other factors in society that were reflected in schools were Religion and Language. After emancipation, from the 1830's to the 1860's, education for most children meant basic primary schooling. The Catholic and Protestant churches were the first institutions to set up and run primary schools in ...

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