Colonial schools selectively reinforced African morality while replacing it where it clashed

Evidence

Where parental, community, or religious morality did not offend, schools were to reinforce it; the French did not want the African family disintegrating. When local notions offended, superior French ones were to take their place. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 462

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Black teaching was inherently political and antiracist, making segregated schools sites of revolution — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 10