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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