Discuss the objectives and results of assimilation.

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Objectives

1. Familiarize Africans with European systems since French systems had to be the same. The assumption was that they wanted all people to be equal. They wanted to suppress the African culture and encourage French culture which they thought was superior.

2. Make Africans like Frenchmen, people of high quality (cherishing metropolitan) in order to make black Frenchmen. Once assimilated one had the rights of a French.

3. Maintain the stands spread mass education and make Africans identify with France.

As a result of this;

a. Teachers were brought from France

b. Medium of instruction was French – no vernacular in the schools. They were too many and not as suitable as French for technical training.

c. Curriculum was the same as in France
d. The same standards were to be maintained Children who went to secondary were only allowed with thorough knowledge of
French. This policy was later criticized as being too rigid, unscientific and harmful to the colonized. The French education was not wholly appropriate for the local needs They also said that the education should not alienate them from their culture. The
French introduced the policy of association. It had these ideas;

Results

1. It sought cooperation of the colonized for economic and social development their regions

2. French authorities were to respect native instruction

3. Colonial policy in each region was to be determined by local geographic and ethnic considerations and the level of social, political and economic development of the local people i.e. there was no uniformity.

4. Natives were to evolve on their own liens and French citizenship was to be granted only to natives who had willingly accepted French civilization.

5. In education association focused on reserving aspects of African culture that did not conflict with French standards of morality.

6. French educators were to combine lessons in French civilization and western technical expertise with as many references as possible from the indigenous culture. When it came to implementation, the French found it difficult to distinguish between assimilation and association. In theory it was association but assimilation in practice.

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