education-ministers

"Ing ngarso sung tulodo, ing madyo mangun karso, tut wuri handayani." Which translates: "As a teacher and leader, in front we should set an example, in the middle should raise the spirit, and behind should give encouragement."

"Maureen Thelma Watson respond "Which genres do you particularly enjoy reading?And which do you avoid?"

"Maureen Thelma Watson "What are your favorite books about Zimbabwe or written by Zimbabwean authors?"

"I have a few favorites: An Ill-Fated People: Zimbabwe Before and After Rhodes by Lawrence Vambe, The Quartet: Children of Violence by Doris Lessing, and Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller."

"I was fortunate to be born at Dadaya Mission nearly 79 years ago, so my connection to Zimbabwe goes back much further than 1965. Growing up in a vibrant community that included figures like Ndabaningi Sithole gave me a unique perspective. When the Rhodesian Front came to power and saw these individuals as potential enemies, I had the privilege of knowing them as champions of what would one day become Zimbabwe. What better background could I have had?"

"I enjoy reading crime fiction and avoid Mills & Boon."

"I have several books on my bedside table, including A Dream Fulfilled: Memoirs of an African Diplomat by Thandi Lujabe-Rankoe, Sleep In Peace Tonight by James MacManus, The Many Houses of Exile by Richard Jurgens, and the Bible."

"In 1964, Harold Hockshield saw my speech in the Central African Examiner and distributed copies worldwide, leading to a scholarship offer from Columbia University. In October 1965, my father was detained, likely due to concerns he’d form a government in exile. Edinburgh University then invited me to speak in his place."

"Maureen Thelma Watson respond, "You’ve said Zimbabwe has been your full-time commitment and ‘marriage’ since 1965—could you explain that?""

"It’s been a journey of ups and downs. Before Zimbabwe, there was Rhodesia, which brought its own challenges, but it’s been a life shaped by significant moments. For example, back in 1964, while I was at university with others who would later become prominent Zimbabweans, like Byron Hove and others, we staged a demonstration against the banning of the Daily News a newspaper we had at the time."

"Maureen Thelma Watson responds, "In other words, you were fully committing yourself and everything you had to the liberation struggle?"

"William Faulkner"

"Maureen Thelma Watson answers the question, "Who is your all-time favorite writer?""

"Maureen Thelma Watson responds to the question, "What books are currently on your nightstand?""

"Maureen Thelma Watson responds, " When you say you've been "married" to Zimbabwe for that long, how has that marriage turned out?"

"Spain was the champion of the Catholic world, the safeguard of the Catholic world. The Counter-Reformation against Lutheranism. And Europe had left this task in the hands of Spain."

"No ideal can spring from a soil or seed alien to it; the methods and weapons used for its attainment must be in harmony with itself. Therefore from the struggling proletariat we must not expect the splendour of the harvest and the perfection of form and unfettered grace of victorious strength. These will reveal themselves in the future. Nevertheless, we have every reason to expect that proletarian culture, because of its struggle, its toil, and suffering, will possess characteristics which would probably be unthinkable in the social order of a triumphant Socialism."

"In essence, the Intelligentsia is, as a whole, petite bourgeois. But at the same time, it is the bearer of special functions in society--it is the organ and servitor of social knowledge and consciousness. For, in the words of Lassalle, the union of science and the fourth estate is a most natural phenomenon. A real artist must be sensitive to truth, to the beauty of heroism and of the will to freedom. The teacher, the true teacher, must first of all be with the masses in all their experiences and through all their wanderings."

"The man was like a diamond, chosen for its absolute hardness to be the axis of some delicate, perpetually revolving piece of mechanism. The man was like ice; the man was like a diamond. His moral nature, too, had a similar quality that was crystalline, cold and spiky. He was transparently free of personal ambition or any form of personal calculation to such a degree that he was somehow faceless. Nor had he any ideas. He had orthodox ideas about everything, but he was only a reflection of the general will, of general Party directives. He never originated anything but merely transmitted what he received from the Central Committee, sometimes from Lenin personally. He transmitted them, of course, clearly and well, adapting them to each concrete situation. When he spoke in public his speeches always bore an official stamp, like leading articles in an official gazette. Everything was carefully thought out; he said what was needed and no more. No sentimentality. No intellectual fireworks."

"Lenin was transformed. I was deeply impressed by that concentrated energy with which he spoke, by those piercing eyes of his which grew almost sombre as they bored gimlet-like into the audience, by the orator’s monotonous but compelling movements, by that fluent diction so redolent of will-power. I realized that as a tribune this man was destined to make a powerful and ineradicable mark. And I already knew the extent of Lenin’s strength as a publicist – his unpolished but extraordinarily clear style, his ability to present any idea, however complicated, in astonishingly simple form and to modify it in such a way that it would ultimately be engraved upon any mind, however dull and however unaccustomed to political thinking. Only later, much later, did I come to see that Lenin’s greatest gifts were not those of a tribune or a publicist, not even those of a thinker, but even in those early days it was obvious to me that the dominating trait of his character, the feature which constituted half his make-up, was his will: an extremely firm, extremely forceful will capable of concentrating itself on the most immediate task but which yet never strayed beyond the radius traced out by his powerful intellect and which assigned every individual problem its place as a link in a huge, world-wide political chain."

"Trotsky's most obvious gifts were his talents as an orator and as a writer. I regard Trotsky as probably the greatest orator of our age. ... His impressive appearance, his handsome, sweeping gestures, the powerful rhythm of his speech, his loud but never fatiguing voice, the remarkable coherence and literary skill of his phrasing, the richness of imagery, scalding irony, his soaring pathos, his rigid logic, clear as polished steel: those are Trotsky’s virtues as a speaker."

"Zinoviev has always acted as Lenin’s faithful henchman and has followed him everywhere. The Mensheviks have affected a slightly scornful attitude to Zinoviev for being just such a dedicated henchman. Perhaps we Forwardists were also slightly infected by this attitude. We knew that Zinoviev was an excellent Party worker, but we knew little of him as a political thinker and we too often used to say of him that he followed Lenin as the thread follows a needle."

"[On tourism from abroad] Italy has more foreigners than anyone else, but its gain is not the greatest."

"[On the request to Sandro Pertini to grant an amnesty for less serious crimes] I raised the hypothesis of amnesty not as a proposal, but as one of the measures that is usually talked about when dealing with the problem of prison overcrowding, which is a real fact of our situation."

"[On consumerism in times of crisis] I believe that distrust in the lira has pushed savers to dig up their bank accounts. Better to spend while the money has some value."

"[For the C.E.1963 general elections] Motivational confessions had explained that, in the unconscious of the average Italian, the Dc more than a Father she was a Mother, or rather a matron: the little woman of Guareschi and Candido, weighed down by the years and unsuitable to guide the search for our new frontera. Did we want to "sell" the center-left? Well, let's try that old saleswoman. And we would have noticed. From"

"I have released all the restraints, we have (regained) control of the area, and we are moving to a full offense. You will have the ability to change the reality here. You have seen the prices (being paid), and you will get to see the change. Hamas wanted a change in Gaza; it will change 180 degrees from what it thought. They will regret this moment, Gaza will never go back to what it was. Whoever comes to decapitate, murder women, Holocaust survivors, we will eliminate him with all our might, and without compromise."

"[Israel] will topple Hamas rule in Gaza. We will eliminate its military capability. We will make sure this threat doesn't exist on our border. It will take time, and it will be lethal, powerful and forever."

"I make it now clear: At the end of the war, Hamas will not control Gaza, there will be no civilian Israeli control in the Gaza Strip, and Tzahal will retain full military freedom of action."

"I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly."

"Uganda needs an effective and efficient infrastructure to support economic growth, poverty eradication, social development and competition in the global market. As you very well know, no economy of a country can stand without proper infrastructure."

"Today we have commissioned these projects as part of Government’s effort in bringing services closer to her people."

"The Uganda Government is therefore keen to attract more investments from EU through this engagement and in return the Ugandan business community is encouraged to take advantage of this engagement to expand partnerships that enhance technology, skills, financing, standards and further deepen access to EU markets. Our philosophy is to provide a One Stop Centre to investors across all Government MDA’s, ease the business environment, and reduce the cost of doing business. This service is available at Uganda Investment Authority."

"Under H.E. President Yoweri Museveni, Uganda has experienced political stability, democratic progress and economic growth."

"It is our pledge that Government through its agencies will honor our commitments made at this business forum and continue to support annual EU-Uganda business forum as a platform for Uganda and its European partners to continue pursuing their common interest and improve ways of working together."

"Believe that only you can stop yourselves. It is not going to be about your parents, rich or poor; not the region you come from and whether it is endowed with resources or not. Remember that natural endowment is what it is; it did not come from the effort of anyone. It is nature that placed those resources there. That is why we call them natural resources."

"We are a people who jump over many hurdles. Walking that road is an act of courage. That experience is a forge of character."

"The 2024 election is about "reversing the negative trend" set by the current government and emphasized the need for accountability, prosperity, and job creation."

"If we base our conviction on the premise that everyone can learn, then we can reach out of school girls too, with different modes of learning. The longer we keep girls out of school, the further the number increases and the more the desire for global peace will elude us all."

"I found school to be a fun place, making friends, learning and discovering new things. The most impactful teachers were those who smiled, encouraged, tolerated, and who recognized that some flowers take time to bloom."

"A major pillar is effective public education on the importance of effective education for all, especially for girls and women to ground their central role in the life of the family, society, self."

"“Politics about fighting injustice, hunger, hopelessness, arrogance, selfishness, unbridled greed, corruption, state capture, disrespect of fellow human beings.”"

"Giving up is not an option. Stay the course. As a people, we have survived many unspeakable atrocities. Read and know your true history. We just celebrated the Year of Return. Read that history, very, very carefully. It has not been a nice cup of sobolo."

"Making history is gratifying; but what really matters is not to be first through the door. What matters is to hold the door open for those behind us and create other avenues for self actualization for many more."

"When there appears to be selective justice; when some offenders are not even placed on the hook but are hailed and promoted for being nasty and violent, the logical outcome is what we see."

"To all the little girls and boys across our country, always dream big; remain focused. You can grow to become anything you want to be."

"“The NPP’s ‘It Is Possible’ is pure deception: look at their track record.”"

"Governments must continuously demonstrate that education is the fulcrum of all development, the hub around which all spokes - security, health, the economy, climate change, equality, human rights and others revolve."

"I am not an economist but I understand the economy. Naana Opoku-Agyemang to critics"

"“It’s all about putting the group above the individual and understanding that our actions today shape the legacy we leave for tomorrow”"