In Ode as at then, no one knew about primary and secondary schools. There was no idea of going to a university also. The best parents could give their male children was to make the best hunters, farmers, warriors or medicine men out of them.
The girls were trained in domestic crafts, home care, children rearing and how to be good and submissive wives to their husbands. At noon, the village girls filed out to the nearby streams with calabashes and clay pots perfectly balanced on their heads while humming folksongs.
The boys would follow behind them with their bows and arrors, slings and spears and disappear into the nearby bushes to hunt rabbits, squirrels, wild pigeons and other smaller animals within their powers, occasionally praising great hunters and invoking their powers and support with songs as they hunted.
Only the strong and brave hunted on their own, daring the lions, tiger and wild man-eating animals that had strayed from the forest of the dead into nearby bushes and undergrowth.