The latest Pirls results offer a sobering assessment of South Africa’s basic education system — and of the country’s future leaders and prospects, writes ChrisRoper.
Early in Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage, Jonny Steinberg’s recently published and highly acclaimed book, he writes about Mandela’s years as a young boy, and how he was educated.
“Nowhere does Nelson tell us of the first book he read. Nor do any of his biographers,” Steinberg writes. “It might well have been John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, which had been translated into Xhosa decades earlier and was a staple on mission school syllabuses. What we do know is that during his final year at Healdtown [Methodist school] he read the first volume of Lord Macaulay’s History of England, for students were examined on it at the end of the year.” ..
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