356 DOES IT I'AV TO EDUCATE THE NATIVE? 



Kynoch's (Mr. Pugh, Compound Manager). 



17. Phineas Masinga — A tip-top boy. My right-hand boy. 



18. Ephraim Masinga — I don't think too much of him. but 



there is nothing definite against him. 



19. John Niekerk. 



20. Sikwele Mapumulo. 

 Both all right. 



21. Tonga Ntuli — One of the best boys I have had. A 



ripping good boy. 



Kynoch's, Ltd. (T. A. Warner, (Jverseer). 



23. Joseph Bhulose. 



24. Samuel Langa. 



Seven years ago I was asked to investigate so as to make a 

 comparison between educated and raw natives. The subject did 

 not interest me at first, but I thought it was worth trying. We 

 had about 800 boys at the time, and we decided to pick out the 

 best 100 from the lot, based upon their value to us as workers. 

 When the 100 had been chosen, we looked up the history of each, 

 and found that 20 were what you would call raw natives. The 

 other 80 were mission natives, and of this number, 60 were what 

 are uually considered as educated, that is, were able to read and 

 write. Since that time I have been a rabid educationist, atid I 

 will take any boys you care to send along. 



These are the facts, and all the facts, regarding the product 

 of one school, within the limits set by this paper. 



With the help of two friends, the above opinions have been 

 carefully considered and classified, in order to ascertain what 

 opinions the employers have formed of them. Of the 185 cases 

 investigated, the employers regarded : 



o as worthless ; 



7 as poor ; 



14 as fair ; 



80 as good ; 



56 as very good ; 



28 as excellent. 



To come back to our original question :" Does it pay tO' 

 educate the native?" we may say that: If education induces the 

 best of them to go back and work for the uplift of their people; 

 if the educated native is more temperate, works longer and more 

 steadily than the raw native ; if the average educated native is 

 ranked by his employer as varying from good to very good ; atid 

 from his wages is evidently worth from two to four times as 

 much as the uneducated man — then it seems to us, to use Parlia- 

 mentary language, " The anszver to the question is in the affirma- 

 tive." 



Amanzimtoti Institute, 

 Natal. 



