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for white settlers, Asians, mulattos (half- castes) and .assimilados (black Portuguese) which means that African students who succeed in their final primary school examinations have got to be assimilados prior their admission in Secondary schools. Conditions for assimilation are so well planned by the Portuguese athorities that it becomes impossible for the majority of the African students to qualify and thus arc forced to surrender their educational career. Always remaining as holders of a standard four (4a classe) school certificate. On the secondary level, no African assimilado has ever completed the full seven year "Liceu" program in Mozambique. In relation to the average income of African wage earners,, thc cost of a child to the liccu is very high. Tuition amounts to the equivalent of one month's wages during the first year and raises higher with each grade passed. Official figures show that in the biggest and best high school "Liceu Salazar" in Lourenco Marques, the capital city of the colony, which during the school term of 1958/59 enrolled 1.157 pupils, only 35 were African assimilados. Thc so-called Colonial University, in Lourenco Marques, the Portuguese are boasting and singing to the world about is therefore built for the whites and mullatoes who so far are the only people in Mozambique with thc necessary requirements for admission. Most of the African assimilados on the secondary level are enrolled in commercial and industrial schools because of the slightly low fees as compared to the Liceu. Colonial powers which have lost their grip, l>ecause they have permitted and even encouraged the growth of African educated people are viewed by the Portuguese with considerable contempt. There is no place in Mozambique for Africans who think for themselves. The present administration believes that by educating Africans it will be hastening its own eventual doom and yet forgetting that it does not need any one to be educated for one to know that she or he is oppressed- j While the so-called Republic of South Africa with its Bantu Education Act, presents the spectacle of a Government feverishly trying to completely dismantle a relatively progressive native educational- system and pursue the Portuguese educational system, education in Mozambique has always been guided by the belief that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Always hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. I
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Title | CENPA-296~17 |
Filename | CENPA-296~17.tiff |
Full text | for white settlers, Asians, mulattos (half- castes) and .assimilados (black Portuguese) which means that African students who succeed in their final primary school examinations have got to be assimilados prior their admission in Secondary schools. Conditions for assimilation are so well planned by the Portuguese athorities that it becomes impossible for the majority of the African students to qualify and thus arc forced to surrender their educational career. Always remaining as holders of a standard four (4a classe) school certificate. On the secondary level, no African assimilado has ever completed the full seven year "Liceu" program in Mozambique. In relation to the average income of African wage earners,, thc cost of a child to the liccu is very high. Tuition amounts to the equivalent of one month's wages during the first year and raises higher with each grade passed. Official figures show that in the biggest and best high school "Liceu Salazar" in Lourenco Marques, the capital city of the colony, which during the school term of 1958/59 enrolled 1.157 pupils, only 35 were African assimilados. Thc so-called Colonial University, in Lourenco Marques, the Portuguese are boasting and singing to the world about is therefore built for the whites and mullatoes who so far are the only people in Mozambique with thc necessary requirements for admission. Most of the African assimilados on the secondary level are enrolled in commercial and industrial schools because of the slightly low fees as compared to the Liceu. Colonial powers which have lost their grip, l>ecause they have permitted and even encouraged the growth of African educated people are viewed by the Portuguese with considerable contempt. There is no place in Mozambique for Africans who think for themselves. The present administration believes that by educating Africans it will be hastening its own eventual doom and yet forgetting that it does not need any one to be educated for one to know that she or he is oppressed- j While the so-called Republic of South Africa with its Bantu Education Act, presents the spectacle of a Government feverishly trying to completely dismantle a relatively progressive native educational- system and pursue the Portuguese educational system, education in Mozambique has always been guided by the belief that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Always hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. I |
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