Samuel Adjai Crowther: Public Domain Analysis

Samuel Adjai Crowther": Public Domain
The rage for education increased. So anxious were the parents that their children should learn quickly, that they would bring them to the mission school with instructions that the poor little black whites should be kept at study day and night, and they could not easily be brought to see that relaxation and sleep were necessary to young people. Sometimes the Bishop was frankly told that all that was wanted was that the children should be able to gauge palm oil and add up the books correctly. But in other cases ambition and vanity formed the driving power to get these girls and boys to bring lustre upon their name by displaying superior attainments in the presence of less fortunate families.
Vanity and a