47 Quotes by Julius Nyerere


  • Author Julius Nyerere
  • Quote

    The education provided must therefore encourage the development in each citizen of three things; an inquiring mind; and ability to learn from what others do, and reject or adapt it to his own needs; and a basic confidence in his own position as a free and equal member of the society, who values others and is valued by them for what he does and not for what he obtains.

  • Tags
  • Share



  • Author Julius Nyerere
  • Quote

    We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society which produced us.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Julius Nyerere
  • Quote

    A nation which refuses to learn from foreign culture is nothing but a nation of idiots and lunatics... But to learn from other cultures does not mean we should abandon our own.

  • Tags
  • Share


  • Author Julius Nyerere
  • Quote

    One does not judge one's state of health by comparing it to that of a sick person

  • Share