What was the purpose of residential schools?

Answer 1

When the Europeans came to Canada and found the aboriginal peoples here they found that their ''God'' was not the same and that their ways of living were different. The Europeans thinking that they are superior compared to the Aboriginal people they made Residential Schools and put them in the schools essentially to make them more like the Europeans.

Answer 2

For more people to have an education

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It was an attempt to break down First Nations culture and assimilate them. It wasn't about educating children in as much as it was about destroying Native culture (beliefs, language, history).

Answer 3

Well it's, kind of because the government didn't want the " first nations" people to be in with like lets say " white" people, or what ever and wanted them to be in an all " first nations" school so they could learn how to be " white". And it wasn't right.

Answer 4

Canada is a large country with our population spread out across the land. Residential or Boarding Schools brought lots of students together for larger schools. Some of Canada's best schools were some still are residential or boarding schools.

Some of our worst schools have been residential schools. Taking Native students from remote reserves and putting them in boarding schools far from home, to be taught by people from a different culture might have seemed like a good way to educate them for good jobs but it turned out not to be.