Vocational schools meant for orphans served comfortable European families instead

Evidence

It was Europeans of comfortable, if modest, means, not the orphaned children for whom the school was designed and who never even got through the door, who had become disillusioned with the school’s limited prospects. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 715

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader colonial education literature and postcolonial critique of whose interests colonial institutions actually served (e.g., Ann Stoler’s work on colonial education and race).