Say It out Loud - The Education Bill, 1906
… the former in our mind. There is one regrettable feature about the Colonial Secretary's speech. He unconsciously … children not attending school; but, alas! not one word about the quarter of a million Coloured children running wild … write; (3) that of the 40,000 Coloured children at school about 20,000 could read and write. 10,000 read only, and …