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|Education=During the British rule of East Africa, the Maasai engaged in a form passive resistance to preserve their culture. THey refused to settle down, take up agriculture, or send their children to be educated by the British. Education was seen as a way to strip them of their culture. Today with environmental pressures mounting, the Maasai are finding that their children need education in order to survive. Maasai Education Discovery (MED) is a non-governmental organization which operates a dual-culture education system. They teach traditional Maasai skills as well as the sorts of things one would expect to learn with a western education (reading, writing, arithmetic).
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|Education=During the British rule of East Africa, the Maasai engaged in a form passive resistance to preserve their culture. They refused to settle down, take up agriculture, or send their children to be educated by the British. Education was seen as a way to strip them of their culture. Today with environmental pressures mounting, the Maasai are finding that their children need education in order to survive. Maasai Education Discovery (MED) is a non-governmental organization which operates a dual-culture education system. They teach traditional Maasai skills as well as the sorts of things one would expect to learn with a western education (reading, writing, arithmetic).
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|Education=During the British rule of East Africa, the Maasai engaged in a form passive resistance to preserve their culture. They refused to settle down, take up agriculture, or send their children to be educated by the British. Education was seen as a way to strip them of their culture. Today with environmental pressures mounting, the Maasai are finding that their children need education in order to survive. Maasai Education Discovery (MED) is a non-governmental organization which operates a dual-culture education system. They teach traditional Maasai skills as well as the sorts of things one would expect to learn with a western education (reading, writing, arithmetic).
