Child Training in the Kle Division of Teshie

Abstract

This essay is result of an investigation of Child Training in the Kl e Division of the Teshie people. It should be understood that this work is offered with hesitation as an experimental endeavour by the uninitiated ' to tread on ' Holy Ground’. It may be regarded as a pioneer attempt to understand the people of the Deviation in as much as this is only concerned with Child Training. Based on limited field work and limited source of material, it is necessarily incomplete and, in spite of the care which has been taken to ensure accuracy, it probably contains factual errors. Teachers, and educationists on the whole, have been among the first to claim that education, to be truly efficient should be adapted to the needs of each individual child. Their maxim has been: fit the school to the pupil, not the pupil to the school. But such a principle implies that the .function of the teacher is by no means limited to actual teaching. To ensure that his teaching is successful, he must first make a psychological study of every boy or girl in his class. To teach Arithmetic to Kofi or Geography to Kojo, it is not sufficient to know the principle of Arithmetic or the facts of Geography: he must also know Kofi and Kojo. It is with this aim in view that this essay is written.