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Major milestones in the development of education in Kenya during the colonial period and characteristics of missionary education

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Major milestones in the development of education in Kenya during the colonial period.
Initially, the provision of education was the preserve of the missionaries. For example, the Church Missionary Society (CMS) pioneered by setting up a school at Rabai in 1844 and
another in Mombasa in 1873.
Features of Missionary education
a) It was elementary. The subjects taught included religion, writing, reading, reading, hygiene and arithmetic.
b) It was industrial and technical in approach, aiming at training Africans to be carpenters, masons etc.
c) It was denominational and aimed at inculcating doctrines of a particular church in the learners.