Parents give birth; the Guru gives life. These life-givers are the soul of the magnificent building. The school building which the government can construct is like the body, but the teachers are the soul.

I went to graduate school and paid good money to get an education that's worth something, but I learned more in the first six months at Walmart than I learned in 5 1/2 years of post-secondary education.

A university stands for humanism, for tolerance, for reason, for the adventure of ideas and for the search for truth.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

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.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.