EDUCATION OF AFRICANS

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29250, 7 July 1960, Page 19

EDUCATION OF AFRICANS

Huxley Attacks Segregation (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) CAPE TOWN, July fl. The British biologist. Sir Julian Huxley, was loudly applauded by more than 1000 students in Cape Town last night when he attacked the South African Government for establishing separate tribal colleges for non-whites. To an outsider, it seemed the scheme would produce secondclass citizens through secondclass education, he said. Sir Julian Huxley was speaking at the annual congress of the National Union of South African Students. Students attending tribal colleges were refused permission to attend the lecture. Any measure to forcibly provide education on a raciallysegregated basis was foolish, said Sir Julian Huxley. The South African Government was cutting itself off from current world thought. “I understand that African education is controlled by the Government, which seems dangerous because I do not like to see any aspect of education controlled by the Government and split from other aspects. “Education should make human beings aware of their duty and privilege of co-operation with the rest of the human species,” he said.