Tuesday, November 9, 2010

the great engine of personal development

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela. Back Bay Books. 1995.
p.166

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