Culture during the Colonial era

For a majority of people education meant a new identity, because this gave them the knowledge of reading, and writing. This was like a magical power that they were getting. Education gave access to better-paying positions in government. Education was the secret of richness. For India and Africa European education was an instrument of progress and liberation from the stranglehold of tradition. Even though the africans wanted to learn to become better the europeans still did not see them as men. James Aggrey says" we were created in the image of God, but men have made us think that we were chickens, and we still think we are; but we are eagles. Stretch forth our wings and fly." This meant that after they were getting educated Africans understood that they were not chickens, that they were more than that and they were capable of learning and doing great things. Which I think is true because when people are told they are something and that have no way of knowing they are not they will keep on believing that.