The Importance Of Western Education

I asked my father why my grandfather never send any of them to school, my father will tell me that back then, Gambia did not have western education system like it is today. He said Gambia was still under colonial rule and the only western school system in the country was centered in the capital city and not in the villages. Secondly, back in those days western education was not seen as a requirement to hold a chieftaincy position or to be a district leader of once territory. There was no requirement to possess in order to be a farmer and since there was so much luxury and self-sufficiency attached to farming, people compete not how much you know academically but how many farmland you possessed, how many wife you have in your possession and how many children you have because more wives is seen as an opportunity to bear more …show more content…
Probably there was only school and usually those schools are reserved for the lucky citizens who lives in the urban areas and beside there were not many importance attached to foreign language pursuit since their generation can farm and eat what they cultivate and cultivate what they eat, they simply were out of touch with the modern world. They never see it as unnecessary or not important, they simply do not think a child needs to obtain certain education in order to be a successful man since farmers and people with more wives and children were seen as the richest in the society.

As generation goes by, integration and the influence of western education becoming more and more powerful and desirable, many parents including my parents think that they cannot afford to keep their children out of touch with the wider world by keeping them uneducated will hinder their development in life and the children they are yet to have. Since we have already been colonized by Britain, then the British influence in our country and plus having to have English as an official language of the country and all