Colonial education policy deliberately aimed to avoid creating nationalist intellectuals

Evidence

It had become necessary to rationalize colonial policy and mission education. The formation of native elites was to be more deliberate. In the beginning there would be an appropriate contingent of clerks and a limited number of professionals, not nationalistic intellectuals; in the West Indies, such was the educational policy laid down generally at the end of the nineteenth century. In Africa, where populations were large and mission schools relatively few, the same policy was inaugurated in the years following World War I, and a common place by the 1930s. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 856

Categorization

• XREF: Shows an early-20th-century colonial ‘containment’ logic that parallels other systems of controlled advancement the reader has encountered. — connects to: US colonial education reforms aimed to Americanize Puerto Rican students — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 929; Colonial rule worsened Egyptian women’s education despite feminist rhetoric — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 159; Colonial-era nationalists already turned European critical methods against their tutors — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 863 (+2 more)