"Friedrich Jost's Report on the Abetifi Boarding School in 1897"

There are more than 100 children in the Abetifi schools. Jost comments on the monitor in charge of the younger forms 'his method reminds one often of the schoolmaster of times past. His teaching is very much a matter of drilling, rather than drawing out the understanding of the pupils’. His stick - with which he strikes right and left - is hardly ever out of his hand. He has forced Jost to warn him that children should not be estranged from the school, but should be won to come to it with happy expectation and enjoyment. 3 or 4 Abetifi pupils will go to the Begoro Middle School in the coming academic year. At Queen Victoria's Jubilee the boys put on a demonstration of singing, gymnastics, and military exercises, looking, as they performed with and sabres 'like a half company of Hausa soldiers'.

07.01.1898

07.01.1898

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