Colonial education mixed African-language respect with French patriotic instruction to make loyal productive subjects.

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Instruction of the mass of Africans was to contribute to the same end by teaching them basic skills that would help raise their productivity. In keeping with the new trends in sociology, local history, African traditions, and Arabic were now all emphasized; this would avoid uprooting Africans from their own cultures. Instruction in French and French colonial history would also help Africans to love the motherland, to understand French motives, and to gain access to the ideas that made France civilized. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 275