Nelson Mandela | "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."

"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."

Nelson Mandela, South African Statesman

Colonialism, Identity, Education, Culture

1

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

"Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it."

Author Name

Personal Development

"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."

Author Name

Personal Development

"The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted."

Author Name

Personal Development

"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself."

Positive

"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."

Wisdom

"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."

Diplomacy

"There is no such thing as part freedom."

Freedom

"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."

Relationship

"In my country we go to prison first and then become President."

Politics

"If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness."

Hope

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."

Communication

"Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace."

Peace

"Where you stand depends on where you sit."

Perspective

1

Standard

Customized

More

"Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it."

Author Name

Personal Development

"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."

Author Name

Personal Development

"The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted."

Author Name

Personal Development

More

"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself."

Positive

"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."

Wisdom

"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."

Diplomacy

"There is no such thing as part freedom."

Freedom

"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."

Relationship

"In my country we go to prison first and then become President."

Politics

"If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness."

Hope

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."

Communication

"Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace."

Peace

"Where you stand depends on where you sit."

Perspective