Many missionary societies established mission schools in the nineteenth century in the British Empire as a means to convert nonEuropeans to Christianity. Although the details, differed in various colonial contexts, the driving ideology behind mission schools was that Christian morality was highest form of civilisation needed for nonEuropeans to be useful members of colonies under British rule. This comprehensive survey of multicolonial sites over the long time span clearly describes the missionary paradox that to draw in pupils they needed to provide secular education, but that secular education was seen to lead both to a moral crisis and to antiBritish sentiments.
Many missionary societies established mission schools in the nineteenth century in the British Empire as a means to convert nonEuropeans to Christianity. Although the details, differed in various colonial contexts, the driving ideology behind mission schools was that Christian morality was highest form of civilisation needed for nonEuropeans to be useful members of colonies under British rule. This comprehensive survey of multicolonial sites over the long time span clearly describes the missionary paradox that to draw in pupils they needed to provide secular education, but that secular education was seen to lead both to a moral crisis and to antiBritish sentiments.
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