I hope this picture essay doesn’t take Nelson Mandela’s great name in vain. But I think he’d approve. And I think you all can get the point.

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And from Kayne West, showing his take on how we gonna make the black nation rise:

Or Neil Gaiman:

Or Noel Gallagher of Oasis:

And the latest PISA international education scores from the OECD, via the BBC:

I hope the lesson’s clear. Book haters are the agents and accomplices of tyranny and slavery. Always and everywhere. Book lovers are the force for freedom.

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  1. Mandela’s political party forced school boycotts by black kids for many years as a statement against Apartheid which I find remarkably stupid because it hurt the kids, but not the white government.

    I have never heard that Mandela disproved of this stupidity by his wife who helped run the political party so, no, Mandela wasn’t a big proponent of education for most of his political life.

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