{UAH} EDUCATION WITHOUT REASONING IS USELESS (I told you !!!!!}

Education without reasoning useless: President

December 23, 2013 Shingirai Huni Headlines, Top Stories

President Mugabe

Temba Dube in Bulawayo
ONE of the greatest legacies Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo left Zimbabweans is the realisation that education without reasoning and courage to fight for what one believes in is useless, President Mugabe said yesterday.
Addressing a huge gathering at the official opening of Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport in Bulawayo yesterday, President Mugabe said Dr Nkomo’s principles were instrumental in setting the pace for land negotiations at the Lancaster House talks.

Deviating from his prepared speech, the President poured his heart out in a moving speech in which he invoked the spirit and sacrifices of Zimbabwe’s departed liberation heroes to guide the nation as it goes forward.

“His thinking was; you are ignorant, to be educated is not always to be knowledgeable. You are an ignorant people if you do not realise that these people you call uneducated, dirty, are above you in reasoning.

“They have established that this country is theirs. They have established that this country does not belong to the British. They have established that the Africans of this country must unite and fight.

“You may have a degree or degrees, what do they matter if you are going to be a coward?” asked President Mugabe, drawing thunderous applause from the crowd.

He said between 1955 and 1957, the youth league and ANC led by Dr Nkomo, came together to form a formidable liberation movement.
“There were no other graduates (in the group except Nkomo) but there were graduates teaching elsewhere. They must have said Nkomo is doing what Kaunda across the Zambezi is doing, but Kaunda did not go to any university, we went to university.

“And that’s the language they were taught. He (Nkomo) led them, Nyandoro, Chikerema, Nyagumbo and the people followed. I only came in 1960 from Ghana,” said the President.

The Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces said people in Ghana who had Oxford University degrees labelled Kwame Nkrumah – who was to become one of Africa’s greatest statesmen – a verandah boy who was uneducated and did not deserve to be followed.

President Mugabe said he recalled a man from the family of his love Sally Hayfron – who was to later become Zimbabwe’s first First Lady – who spoke wisely about fighting for freedom.

“I remember when I went to Ghana with JZ Moyo, he became my best man when I got married. Uncle Williams was saying ‘the problem with Ghana is that we are being led by uneducated men. Nkrumah and all those who follow him are uneducated people. You are in love with my niece, here. Before you do politics, listen to me, you must read Plato, Aristotle and Socrates.

“’Plato likened the country and the people to the parts of the body. The arms represented the soldiers who should fight. The stomach those who should work and produce food in agriculture. The head, those who should think and here in Ghana, we do not have those who should think’,” said President Mugabe.

He said those who thought they were too educated to get themselves dirty in fighting for independence later joined the so-called uneducated after the settler regime did not spare them imprisonment.

Said President Mugabe, “Today, we need to impress on our young people going to tertiary institutions that if there is no realisation in them that they are inheritors of the struggle that was fought for them to be able top go to those universities, then we will have missed out on a very important piece of knowledge.”

He said he was disappointed that the country’s universities shied away from imparting political knowledge so young Zimbabweans could better appreciate their country’s past, present and future.

“This does not necessarily mean being a solider, it means having the faith in you that Zimbabwe is your country and you can speak about it to others that you meet and boast about it. You should not feel shy to be a Zimbabwean, you don’t feel shy to talk about your country, even if you visit Britain, you should be able to say yes you do not want our leader, you do not like our leader, but I am a Zimbabwean. That is the legacy that we were left by those who left,” said the President.

He said Dr Nkomo left a legacy of unity, nation-building and tolerance that needed to be perpetuated for the good of the country.
In his speech, Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Dr Obert Mpofu said the date for completion of the Airport project was the first thing that President Mugabe and the senior Minster of State in the President’s Office, Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo asked him about when he was appointed to head that ministry soon after the 2013 harmonised elections.

He said the question spurred him into ensuring that the project was commissioned this year.
The Minister of State for Provincial Affairs for Bulawayo Eunice Moyo said Zimbabwe had every reason to celebrate the honour bestowed on Bulawayo by the commissioning of the three projects; namely, the airport, unveiling of Dr Nkomo’s statue, and renaming of Main Street to Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Street.

She paid tribute to President Mugabe’s Government for championing the projects.

 

 

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