Education is not an end in itself, but an aid to assist you to distinguish between good and evil, between the harmful and the useful. Academic attainment, untested by practical experience, does not put one in any better position than that of the uneducated. Higher education entails comparitively higher responsibility or obligation.
Evaluate your ideas; separate the good in them from the bad. Your hands once put to the plough, do not look back. Education moulds human elements in man. It develops him from adolescence to manhood. Let usefulness be your hallmark today, not adolescence.
It is well known that if a people has the firm determination to work, it can overcome any and all its difficulties and problems. We have no problem which is insurmountable. Let us work in unity and diligence. What makes a people great and testifies to its greatness is its aspirations for the well-being of its country, and the practical achievement of these same aspirations for its own benefit and for that of future generations. Unity gives strength and assures success.
In all the countries We have visited, we have noted that education is the basis for the greatness, the power, the pride and prosperity of a nation.
The thing that harms a nation most and cripples its strength is lack of enthusiasm and zeal to strive through education to rise itself to the level that other nations have attained.
His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I
King of Kings of Ethiopia
His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I with the many children he helped support. He built many schools and made education the priority for Ethiopia and all of Africa's youth. Zimbabwe is a major beneficiary of this policy that began with the Imperial Ethiopian Monarchy.