The British Empire: A source for good or evil? February 2014 | Page 4

Massieux Coryne
Baud Marie Aude

How does the education system of colonies reflect the
old introduction of the British education?
If we look at the education system in the crown colonies (general noun that refers to all of
the countries of the British empire except the Canada, Newfoundland, British Columbia,
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, and
New Zealand) we can see that it is not very advanced yet. Malta is the only one of the
colonies to have a university.
The reasons for that are obvious : Those colonies have no resources, their development is
just beginning and their populations are the most delay.
Conditions were different in the autonomous colonies because they had a significant white
settlement population and India had many centuries of civilization behind it, and enough
resources to finance universities.

Doc 1. A photo of an African school

Questions:
1- What are the «crown colonies»?
2- What can we say about the education system of the crown colonies?
3- What shows on this photo that it was taken in a colony of the British Empire?
(doc.1)

4- How can we see the poverty in this photo? (doc.1)

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