Indies craft-school debates predated similar Dutch vocational school movements

Evidence

Debates in the Indies around craft schools that began in the 1830s probably did not prefigure those in Holland but they did precede the widespread creation of such schools in Dutch cities. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 731

Categorization

• QUESTION: The author hedges ‘probably did not prefigure’ — worth checking whether colonial reform flowed back to the metropole.