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strange odd-shaped object it must appear to a young African apprentice

straight from a far-away village. Our task must be to familiarise people

often possessed of a traditional agricultural expertise of great value, with

the tools of progress. It is this aspect of the educational work now being

done in the colonial territories which often fails to get the emphasis due to

it in formal accounts of educational progress. We are fightly proud of the

advance being made in the provision of facilities for higher education in the

colonies but perhaps even more important in long-term benefit to the economic

and political stability of those arcas is the great effort now being made to

bring basic education to the mass of the people. Modern production techniquer

in agriculture and industry are complicated. Instructors cannot instruct by

demonstration alone. An elementary technical vocabulary is an essential

piece of equipment for the workman of to-day. He may be called on at any

time, for example, to study and understand the handbook issued with the

mechanical equipment which which he is armed to do in one day the work which

even the previous generation could only accomplish through weeks of toil by

a band of manual labourers. It is this type of education given in adult

education movements, in clubs, by administrators and technical officers in

the course of day-to-day work, which will produce the human capital essential

for increased production. Investment in skill is more durable and productive

than investment in matorial goods; it is multiplied in transmission and if

fertilised by an imaginative educational policy can raise the powers of self-

help of the colonial peoples to new heights. Those mass education projects

are still, of course, in their formative stages as this is new territory where

doctrine is still being evolved from experience.

But early results are

promising. Another advantage of such training is that without it the

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