Colonial Western-style education expanded explosively in early 20th century
Evidence
Even in the ultra-conservative Netherlands Indies, the number of natives receiving a primary Western-style education shot up from an average of 2,987 in the years 1900–04 to 74,697 in 1928; while those receiving a Western-style secondary education increased in the same span of time from 25 to 6,468. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 491
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Colonial education reproduced the imperial curriculum and deferred indigenization.; Dutch colonial education produced almost no native college graduates before 1940 — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 444; the MOC “The Schoolroom That Unmade Them: Contact, Correction, and the Colonized Child”