Indian Attitudes towards Education and Inter-Ethnic Contact in Mexico

Abstract

In an earlier article in Practical Anthropology, the author discussed the significance of values, attitude, and social relationship for the part which they play in influencing social change, centering the discussion on resistance of Indians to girls' learning Spanish and learning to read. Now, in the present article. Dr. Colby presents more data on Indian attitudes toward education and toward contact with Ladinos. No educational system operates in a vacuum. Inevitably the community in which it operates abounds in a complex of attitudes toward it, attitudes which will militate strongly for or against the goals of the educators. This article presents one brief case in point.¹