We need evaluations and plans, but we need in the planners a passion to create through education what Governor General Azikiwe of Nigeria called for in his Inaugural Address: 'a hate-free, fear-free, greed-free world, peopled by free men and women.'
Message to the Addis Ababa Conference of African States on the Development of Education.
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