"Race is not the only differential in South Africa, in the new South Africa, where all schools are open, mother-tongue education is a very big issue. One of the main reasons why the dropout figure of black students, and the lower pass rate of black students in the present education system, and it was like that before, was that we didn't have mother-tongue education."

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Source : Source: www.theguardian.com

Frederik Willem de Klerk

#School Quotes #Black Quotes #Students Quotes

“Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.”
“Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn't right for me. They're afraid to step outside the box - even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with.”
“I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies.”
“Do we know what we look like? Not really.”
“I don't have to be making something to feel like life has value.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“All societies are historical.”
“It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.”
“There's a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that's directed at me [and] directed at the president. You know, people talking about taking their country back. ... There's a certain racial component to this for some people. I don't think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there's a racial animus.”

Source : "Eric Holder: U.S. Still 'Afraid' of Race". ABC News interview, abcnews.go.com. July 13, 2014.

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