Author Question: In colonies, education was most frequently aimed at: a. Achieving universal literacy. b. ... (Read 45 times)

audie · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

In colonies, education was most frequently aimed at:

a. Achieving universal literacy.
b. Educating the poor, who would then become backers of the colonial regime.
c. Training the people that Europeans thought were the most primitive.
d. Training the children of the elites.
e. Fostering creativity and independence that could lead to prosperity.

Question 2

In the early 20th century, a key function of education in the colonies was to do all of the following except:

a. Create leadership qualities in the local population.
b. Convince local children that they were inferior to those who had colonized them.
c. Convince subject people to buy products offered by the colonizing power.
d. Show colonial subjects that they (the colonizers) were offering something of value to the country they had taken over.
e. Create independence in the colony.