Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that a son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.