The world celebrates Nelson Mandela’s posthumous 100th birthday today. His life of purpose, knowledge, wisdom, and sacrifice continues to inspire us. Here are 10 things Mandela told us about life and education we all should think about and live by: 1. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. […]
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I have always been a rebel, a rebel against content-cramming, and soulless educating in Nigeria. And I know what Mark Twain meant when he cautioned us not to “allow [your] schooling to interfere with your education”. By the way I have suffered for it, but that’s not the point of this post. Recently, I had
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This is an excerpt from a speech delivered by Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe at the Methodist Boys’ High School, Lagos in November, 1934. “The African should go beyond the veneer of knowledge. Ability to quote Shakespeare or Byron or Chaucer does not indicate original scholarship. The capacity to know what the periphrastic conjunction is, or to
