Partial colonial education created a literate unemployed class who felt abandoned

Evidence

The little French learning was also dangerous, in that it aroused a powerful appetite for more; and it threatened (because of economic problems) to create a class of “literate unemployed”. In words that could have applied to more than just education, an old Kabyle complained sadly to Germaine Tillion: “You’ve led us to the middle of the ford, and there you’ve left us.…” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 181

Categorization

• DEFINE: The chapter title ‘In the Middle of the Ford’ and the book’s core metaphor both come from this exact quote.
• XREF: connects to: Partial French education created a frustrated literate-unemployed class that fueled revolt; Educated colonials suffer an intellectual alienation unlike laborers’ material exploitation.; Colonial education programs created the dependency complex they then blamed on blacks (+14 more)

Related

• Colonial education produced a deracinated Black middle class serving as intermediaries. (similarity 0.91)
• Partial French education created a frustrated literate-unemployed class that fueled revolt (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial education programs created the dependency complex they then blamed on blacks (similarity 0.86)
• The 1883 colonial authorities abandoned manual training for a managerial caste system (similarity 0.85)
• Pathare Prabhus leveraged scribal literacy to enter colonial employment in western India (similarity 0.85)
• Educated colonials suffer an intellectual alienation unlike laborers’ material exploitation. (similarity 0.79)
• Educated colonial subjects doing well assimilating get punished with inferiority when rejected (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonial education aimed to limit subject aspirations by withholding surplus skills #expands (0.70)
• Colonial subjects resist the amputation of their identity yet find agency impossible #expands (0.65) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 556
• White colonial education internalized self-hatred among West Indian Blacks. #corroborates (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2336