Colonial authorities adapted European discipline institutions to perceived local sensitivities

Evidence

If in Europe the impoverished looked upon the workhouses as a last resort, in the Indies “such institutions would be more humiliating still,” and the perception worse. Instead, he urged the creation of agricultural schools on a Froebel model for nursery school–age children to “train them in agriculture, animal raising, butter and cheese production, and in the making and tending of orchards.” — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 790