“Education will open doors where none seem to exist.  It’ll make people talk to you, listen to you and help you; people who otherwise wouldn’t bother.  It will make you soar, like a bird lifting up into the endless blue sky, and leave poverty, hunger, and suffering behind.  It’ll teach you to learn to embrace what’s good and shun what’s bad and evil.  Above all, it’ll make you grow up to be a good and proud person.  That’s why I want you to go to school, child, so that education can do all that, and more, for you.”

Kaffir Boy

By Mark Mathabane