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.
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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