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The Reasons Of The Bantu Education Act Of 1953

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During the Apartheid era, teachers had to under went changes within the education systems and teaching methods. As the National party introduce the idea of the Bantu Education act of 1953. This act would in its basic forms classify each race into their own future careers. The non-white or black students would have all their classes taught in Afrikaans. This new form of segregation also enforced segregation within schools. This act did not only impact the students but as well as the black teacher’s as the government had the power to decrease their salaries. In the year of 1953 a dramatic drop of teacher trainees as the amount of black teachers to started to decrease. The government also started taking the funds from non-white schools and placed …show more content…

There were many issues that took place in these schools and in the system. There were not many schools and of those schools, many were over populated and had no proper resources. Many of the schools tried their best to provide their students with the best education and wanted to give students the freedom of choosing between the different types of schools.

The Bantu Education Act put all the schools under the control of the Government and not under the Educational Department. Therefor most mission schools chose to close rather than promote apartheid in education. There were many reasons that contributed to the Bantu Educational act, but the main reason was so that African children could receive a different kind of education from which they usually received throughout the world. The white government was clear that the Bantu education was designed so the African students could contribute the economy.

Many African people, as well as peoples of other races felt strongly against the Bantu Education. African people felt that this would make their children feel ashamed of their own culture and make them feel inferior to children of other race. The only other choice the Government left these people, was the choice of leaving their children without any education. Therefore the African parents decided to leave their children without any

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