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From peasant family to prime minister

 
sgtdjones 2017-11-04 18:25:11 

From peasant family to prime minister

...Panday shares his story


Former Prime Minister Basdeo Panday says as a child, he was haunted by the thought that education was the answer to his poverty.

He said, “I later realised that I must have been thinking of the word in a different sense.”

Panday was speaking at the prize giving ceremony of his alma mater, Presentation College, San Fernando on Friday.

He said, “One does not really get an education by going to schools, colleges and universities. These institutions do not give us an education but rather they teach us how to get an education.”
He noted that the word educate comes from the Latin verb, educo or eductum, which means to bring or draw out that which is pent up within.

He said, “The great legacy of Presentation is that it has had this tremendous capacity of bringing out of us that which we never suspected was there all the time.”


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sgtdjones 2017-11-04 18:26:01 

You were a failure, Bass.

 
sgtdjones 2017-11-04 18:47:30 

Panday says he has no enemies

The political lion, who often donned a red beret and uttered such memorable quips as, “Politics has a morality of its own,” yesterday announced he was a changed person who did not have anyone he could identify as an enemy.

Former Prime Minister and UNC political leader Basdeo Panday made the statement while delivering the feature address at his alma mater, Presentation College, San Fernando, whose annual prizegiving and awards function took place at the school’s auditorium yesterday.

Panday attended the school when it was known as St Benedict’s College; it later became Presentation College after the arrival of the Presentation Brothers from Ireland.

He told the boys he had not imagined entering the political arena, having instead entered the legal profession as a means of escaping poverty.



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