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his good qualities.
The African will remain in permanent servitude if
only to ignorance unless there is willingness to risk the
destruction of those qualities in the changes education
brings and a desire to face building up his character again
but with a totally different mentality. This different
mentality may show itself in a shirking of work, trouble
over food or in a desire to have his wife living with him
however difficult for the employer. The reasons are clear;
the African’s whole capacity for interest, pleasure and
pain are immensely increased through even a little
education.
For the educated African (using this term for even
the comparatively low standard achieved by the average
African schoolboy) the sense of interest has been
aroused through the new variety of life and monotony