missions or education impress nearly everyone. Those of 
     this district are good workers, cheerful, uncomplaining, 
     unaffected by monotony or discomforts, honest and 
     usually remarkably truthful. But it is not uncommon to 
     hear uncomplimentary comparisons made between those 
     Africans and those born of Christian parents or those 
     who started school at an early age. A writer, however, 
     who visited schools in Madagascar says that these 
     untouched children are naturally lethargic. They sit still 
     too long: the impulse to play seems to be dormant. They 
     are impervious to monotony and their mental lethargy 
     enables them to perform, for children, prodigious acts of 
     endurance. These children naturally develop into the 
     uneducated African, who is incapable of filling any skilled 
     post. At the most he can be trained to carry out work 
     that requires no reasoning. That is the penalty paid for