Adapted colonial education still rested on French cultural superiority premises.

Evidence

However committed the Government General appeared to be to a policy of African evolution within their own cultures, it had not broken with many of the universalistic premises upon which assimilation had been based-as the described curriculum also amply attests. These premises were, after all, ones that still resonated in France under the Third Republic in the prewar years. The belief in the inherent superiority of French civilization had not disappeared from official ideology in the metropole at the end of the century. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 278