47<^* .\ATI\1-: EDUCATION" IX THE TRAN'SKEI. 



througli the Transkeian Sclu.i>ls annually, it will be realised that 

 a ven^ considerable class oi school natives is in process of 

 creation, and these are of great value to the Administration. 

 Being better informed, they tend to act as a steadying influence 

 upon the old natives, helping to explain new legislation, and 

 easing the situation generally in one way and another. These, 

 then, may be regarded as the main results of Native Education. 

 A result on which 1 have not dwelt in this paper is the 

 hypothetical one of comj)etition as between w^hite and black. To 

 my mind the fear of such a competition is a confession of weak- 

 ness on the part of the white man. The practical importance of 

 the question, however, is such that I j)refer to reserve consider- 

 ation for the present, hoping- on some future occasion to enter 

 fully into the whole issue. 



\'III. THE .SUPPORT OF TFIE SCHOOLS. 

 I. MISSIONARY S()CIETH-:S. 



The sup}X)rt of the schools is dependent upon three sources. 

 In the first place the Missionary Superintendent who does the 

 work in an honorary cai)acity is only able to do so by reason 

 of the fact that his salary is pro^'ided by the Church or Society 

 of which he is an agent. In providing the necessary buildings 

 for school i)urposes he often is supplied with grants towards the 

 building fund from the same source— especially is this so in the 

 case of the Training Institutions in which the Home Churches 

 have sunk thousands cf ptiunds. All this is due to the develop- 

 ment of Native Education from the days when the schools were 

 a branch of purely missionar) etfort, quite unsupported by grants- 

 in-aid ; and the financial su]>port still given by the various Mis- 

 sionary Societies is not to be under-estimated. It has been esti- 

 mated and publicly stated (I quote it not without reserve) that 

 the missionary bodies are doing work in connection with Native 

 Education in .South .\frica which could not be done by paid 

 agents of the Government at a cost less than £200,000 per annum. 

 If that burden is not upon the Government, it is because it is 

 being faced 1)y the Missionary Societies. 



2. GO\ERN .MI.NT (;kANTS. 



In the second place the Government give grants on certain 

 conditions. These grants are paid (juarterly to the Missionary 

 Superintendent, who pays the salaries of the teachers; and 

 ,every penny of this money is paid over to the teachers con- 

 cerned. Many of the expen.ses incidental to the w'ork are re- 

 garded by the missionaries as personal ex])en.ses, so that not 

 only are they not paid, but actually they lose! A fully certi- 

 ficated teacher is paid (from (jovernment sources) £6 per 

 (juarter, rising slightly with long experience. Teachers who 

 have passed the second year pui)il teachers' examination receive 

 at the rate of £5 per f|uarter ; those whf> have passed the first 



