Nelson Mandela Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• The challenge for each one of you is to take up these ideals of tolerance and respect for others and put them to practical use in your schools, your communities and throughout your lives.

  Nelson Mandela

  School, Community, Challenges

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.390, Pan Macmillan

• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

• Our freedom is also incomplete, dear compatriots, as long as we are denied our security by criminals who prey on our communities, who rob our businesses and undermine our economy, who ply their destructive trade in drugs in our schools, and who do violence against our women and children.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, School, Long

• No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why this particular name I have no idea.

  Nelson Mandela

  Teacher, School, Names

• Only 50 years ago persons with intellectual disabilities were scorned, isolated and neglected. Today, they are able to attend school, become employed and assimilate into their local community.

  Nelson Mandela

  School, Years, Community

• I will use the rest of my life to help the poor overcome the problems confronting them - poverty is the greatest challenge facing humanity. That is why I build schools; I want to free people from poverty and illiteracy.

  Nelson Mandela

  School, People, Challenges

  Source: profitmagazin.com

• I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.

  Nelson Mandela

  Running, Distance, School

• Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches, that part of civil society, which bought land, built schools, and employed and paid teachers. People like myself, right from grade eight up to university, I was in missionary schools.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Teacher, School

  Source: www.mott.org

• I admire young people who are concerned with the affairs of their community and nation perhaps because I also became involved in struggle whist I was still at school.

  Nelson Mandela

  Struggle, School, People

  Nelson Mandela (1998). “In the Words of Nelson Mandela”, Birch Lane Press

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