Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Julius Nyerere Quote

Great thinker in my humble opinion. Man with depth. My kind of man. Check out some of his speeches.

Anyway, just one quote I loved:

Learning has not liberated a man, if all he learns to want is a certificate on his wall and the reputation of being a learned person, a possessor of knowledge,  for such a desire is merely another aspect of the disease of the acquisitive society—the accumulation of goods for the sake of accumulating them. The accumulation of knowledge or, worse still, the accumulation of pieces of paper which represent a kind of legal tender for such knowledge, has nothing to do with development

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