Childhood socialization between these two societies focuses on giving men the opportunity to receive an education. Saitoti (1988: 24) explains that Maasai men encouraged their sons to receive an education. This is further illustrated in the book Worlds of a Maasai Warrior, where Tepelit is forced to go to school by his father. Tepelit doesn't want to go to school and begs his father not to go. The distant one explains to Tepelit that he chose him as the one who will leave because he knows he will return home unlike his