Education is the passport to the future for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today

The Chronicle AFRICAN-AMERICAN Muslim minister and human rights activist el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, commonly known as Malcolm X, once said: “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” French poet, writer and activist Victor Hugo said of the same subject: “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” The importance of education could never be over emphasised. In Zimbabwe, Vision 2030 of achieving an upper middle-income economy is meaningless if the leaders of tomorrow are not empowered through education. One can never talk of the future of the country without talking about education. Malcom X was right, without education, our youth have no tomorrow. And as Hugo put it, without education, the youth could find themselves behind bars. If we do not build schools, we might as well build more prisons. We welcome the remarks by Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Deputy Minister Lovemore Matuke that Government will increase the number of Basic Education Assistance Module (BEAM) beneficiaries in light of the hardships brought about by the global Covid-19 pandemic which has disrupted economies. As we reported yesterday, Government has said it is inexcusable for pupils not to return to class as it is providing all the social security nets including payment of tuition and examination registration fees for those coming from vulnerable families so that no one is left behind. Government this year is targeting to pay school fees...

Figures of Speech Exercise 1 You must have javascript enabled to view this website. Please change your browser preferences to enable javascript, and reload this page. Figures of Speech Exercise 1 Directions: Most of the following items are quotes are from famous people. Identify whether each item represents a metaphor, metonymy, personification, or a simile. If a word or phrase in an item is italicized, tell which type of figurative language it represents. 1 " Education is our passport to the future, and tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." —Malcolm X, civil rights activist and writer A) metaphor B) metonymy C) personification D) simile 2 "Education is our passport to the future, and tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." —Malcolm X, civil rights activist and writer A) metaphor B) metonymy C) personification D) simile 3 "The computer had become like the most miraculous sort of technological Swiss Army knife: each time you thought you knew what it could do, it turned out that it could do more, faster, and more accurately." —Anna Quindlen, author A) metaphor B) metonymy C) personification D) simile 4 "Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest." —Douglas Jerrold, playwright and humorist (1803-1857) A) metaphor B) metonymy C) personification D) simile 5 "Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand...

We all live as long as we experience our lives as having meaning and value, and have something to live for. As soon as meaning, value and hope vanish from our daily experiences, we begin to die. We become "walking corpses". The class of 2021 should realise that education is not a preparation for life, it is life itself. The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Education is learning what we didn't know. It is movement from darkness to light. A learned man always has wealth within themselves. Teachers have to realise that they affect eternity as they can't tell where their influence stops. One who opens a school door closes a prison's. Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything they were taught at school. Education is the passport to the future for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. If you educate the mind without educating the heart, it is no education at all. Education breeds confidence, confidence breeds hope, and hope breeds peace. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Education is the only possession no-one can take away from you. If you are not willing to learn, no-one can help you; and if you are determined to learn, no-one can stop you. Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning. The fruit of education is sweet. Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom! Samuel Radebe, Heilbron

5. “The future depends on what we do in the present.” Mahatma Gandhi 6. “Just because the past didn’t turn out like you wanted it to doesn’t mean your future can’t be better than you imagined.” Anonymous 7. “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” Anonymous 8. “Your future is as bright as your 9. “The future starts today, not tomorrow.” Pope John Paul II 10. “He who wants his future to be better than the present must work for it now to make it so.” ATGW 11. “If we could unfold the future, the present would be our greatest care.” Edward Counsel 12. “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” Jim Rohn 13. “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” Abraham Lincoln 14. “Don’t worry about people in your 15. “The past is your lesson. The present is your gift. The future is your motivation.” Anonymous 16. “Let go of the past and go for the future.” Anonymous 17. “ 18. “My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.” Anonymous 19. “Study the past if you want to define the future.” Confucious 20. “A person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” Earl Nightingale 21. “Do not let the shadows of your past darken the doorstep of your future.” Anonymous 22. “Always remember that the future comes one day at a 23. “If you don’t leave your past in your past, it will destroy your future.” Anonymous 24. “Mathematics is just another ...

Malcolm X’s life changed dramatically in the first six months of 1964. On March 8, he left the Nation of Islam. In May he toured West Africa and made a pilgrimage to Mecca, returning as El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. While in Ghana in May, he decided to form the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU). Malcolm returned to New York the following month to create the OAAU and on June 28 gave his first public address on behalf of the new organization at the Audubon Ballroom in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. That address appears below. Salaam Alaikum, Mr. Moderator, our distinguished guests, brothers and sisters, our friends and our enemies, everybody who’s here. As many of you know, last March when it was announced that I was no longer in the Black Muslim movement, it was pointed out that it was my intention to work among the 22 million non-Muslim Afro-Americans and to try and form some type of organization, or create a situation where the young people – our young people, the students and others – could study the problems of our people for a period of time and then come up with a new analysis and give us some new ideas and some new suggestions as to how to approach a problem that too many other people have been playing around with for too long. And that we would have some kind of meeting and determine at a later date whether to form a black nationalist party or a black nationalist army. There have been many of our people across the country from all walks of life wh...

• • • • “Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and our people rediscover their identity, and thereby increase their self-respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today,” determined Malcolm X at the O.A.A.U.’s [Organization of Afro-American Unity] founding forum at the Audubon Ballroom. (June 28, 1964). The legacy of the fearless icon who gave so much to his people will be commemorated this weekend with various events acknowledging the 88th anniversary of his physical birth, May 19th. The recent tragic murder of his grandson, Malcolm Lateef Shabazz, has put Malcolm X’s name in the national media once again, although, locally surviving comrades and supporters ensure to keep his legacy alive year-round. “Malcolm’s life is an example of how you go from having no consciousness, to having extraordinary-consciousness,” explains O.A.A.U. President, James Small. “…and how you act on it to help others grow.” Some often speak about his development throughout his various incarnations: from… Malcolm Little during his childhood, to Detroit Red when he was a Harlem hustler as a young man, to Malachi Shabazz once embracing the Nation Of Islam’s teachings while incarcerated, to Minister Malcolm X upon his release, to being bestowed the attribute Omowale in Africa, to El Hajj Malike El Shabazz, the name he chose himself. After his March 1964 departure from t...