"From the poorest of countries to the..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela
From the poorest of countries to the richest of nations, education is the key to moving forward in any society.
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“No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why this particular name I have no idea.”
“An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy”
“A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom.”
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“We must learn to do economic work from all who know how, no matter who they are. We must esteem them as teachers, learning from them respectfully and conscientiously. We must not pretend to know when we do not know.”
“I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.”
“The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.”
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“We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.”
“There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.”
“The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man”