The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers of habit and opening broader vistas of experience for both pupils and educationalists.

Education is really bread and butter citizenship. It is just necessary to the developing of citizens that can perform their duties properly.

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. Any nation that is progressive is led by people who have had the privilege of studying.

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.