"Dilger's Yearly Report on the Boy's Boarding School"

Dilger criticises the teaching methods practiced by the local teachers, and his own statement of priorities. The local teachers, as far as he is able to judge, know very little about handling a subject in an exciting and interesting way nor do they understand that for children a subject cannot be treated in details as it should ideally, (it has to be cut down in such a way) as to make it something the children love, and something which they can value. They don't realise you have to make things concrete for children. They regard teaching as pouring information down as funnel in order to make information sausages each day. At the end of the report naming the Abetifi teachers Dilger says that Dako although little gifted is an outstanding teacher, and really does bring the pupils forward. Dilger also comments that parents are still unwilling to send their children to school in Abetifi.

16.03.1882

16.03.1882

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