Settlers protested government funding for native education and resented native competition for jobs.  Their opposition resulted in several vocational programs for natives to be scaled back or eliminated. Cohen's work identifies the settler population and the lack of economic opportunity for educated natives as the reasons for the limited development of native education in South West Africa, but does not focus on these factors or try to explain further underlying issues which influenced settler attitudes and the formation of the economic system in South West Africa.  New research on the relationship of European attitudes to natives and colonial policy sheds light on these issue and can be applied to the question of education policy as well.