Some of the students though discovered that they had lost
their close contact with their own people and even their their close families. They understood Western people, Western languages and Western manners better than those
from their own country. They had even lost their interest in people of Utlandia . The students were not interested in the plants, animals and culture of their own
country.
Most of the teachers think this is quite good because they
found Western culture superior to their own Utlandian culture. Only a few, three of thirty-five, were worried about alienating the students form their own people.
I carried out in-depth interviews with a group of ten
former students visiting their former students visiting the school. These students had graduated from the school seven to ten years ago. I found that these students
had a more differentiated view than the students and teachers at the school. See appendix 2 for the results of the interviews. Only three of them were sure that this
education had been the best for them. They had got high positions in the government after having studied in USA and France for several years.
Visiting some of the homes of the students I found that
the relatives were very proud of their students, but that they were a bit shy to talk to them. The parents had often had to put all their money into educating this
special student. The rest of their children got a very poor education . Many of them did not go to school more than two to three years because the parents could not
afford to pay their school fees. I found that the families put pressure on the student at Eton of Africa and presumed that the student, when educated, would raise the
family’s standard of living.
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