In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

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.

The complete education gives one not only power of concentration but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

Education without social action is a one‐sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure energy.

I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated quality education.