Keen to Learn, and Let Down in South Africa
Celia W. Dugger, New York Times

I am so incredibly disgusted by the perpetuation of that one relevant sin of a sentient species — what I call “uneducation.”

Hendrik Verwoerd, architect of South African apartheid, would surely be proud to see the vestiges of his Bantu education system thriving in schools wherein children are hungry to learn and teachers behave like children.

Of course, you can’t put all the blame on them as the majority were taught under the Bantu system, which, according to this article, Verwoerd described as being a vital stripping down of knowledge so that black students not learn of “the green pastures of European society in which [they are] not allowed to graze.”

Regardless of justifications and excuses, this is an atrocity and must be solved.