Chapter 3
Summary
This chapter was mostly focused on the education children receive in Samoa. After infancy babies are cared for by older siblings, including education. This is usually done by girls, and boys that do end up with the job usually pass it on to someone else at an earlier age than girls would be allowed.
Discussion
While the Samoa education and child raising system would obviously have problems in a modern culture, I did find it very unique. From the stand point of teaching children responsibility, it is also an excellent system. It is interesting as well that all children have someone that sort of cares for them, no matter how old they are. Children that are sufficiently old enough will of course look to the adults, and so forth. This is probably the root of the Samoa relative age system.
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