On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

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.

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits.

It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education. Those who do not believe this have small imaginations.