"Kibi's Stations Conference to the District and General School Inspectors"

Report major increases in the population of school age children of Christians in Akim. The school is not the answer to the problem of what to do with them - inter al they are needed on the farms, and many of them are girls. They have already set up a Volksschule operating two hours a day, 7-9a.m, in Kibi. The Presbyters are prepared to put their authority behind this experiment, and indeed one of them has been made the teacher - John Amoa, who had previously attended the Kibi school and the Middle School. Syllabus (per week): Biblical history 3 hours, reading 4 hours, arithmetic 1 hour, memorising proverbs 1 hour, memorising songs 2 hours. They write that such a regime has a chance of getting somewhere, whereas 'a young teacher from another district who tries to enforce his wishes with that rest of our pupils, the 2-metre stick, would never succeed'.

10.09.1880

10.09.1880

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