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Today's quote about education

Intelligence plus character,that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Winnes in one of the private study session outside classrooms in Tumaini University Mikocheni Campus

from left.Ajat.Mr Lusungu as trying to give instructions about the assignment left by lecturer to fellow group members,edda,Jack and Masamaki

Endless Education

At 97, great-great-grandmother becomes high school's oldest graduateSan Fransisco Chronicle, June 14, 2003

To the graduating seniors of Richmond High School, Saturday marked the beginning of a new life of work, college or military service.
To Gustava Bennett Burrus, it marked the fulfillment of a dream she's harbored for almost nine decades, ever since the 97-year-old's education was cut short in the fourth grade.
The great-great-grandmother walked across the stage at Richmond Auditorium Saturday morning to accept an honorary diploma at Richmond High's graduation ceremony. She became the oldest graduate of the San Francisco Bay area public school, which was founded two years after her birth.
"My dream has come true," Burrus said after the ceremony, her black-and-silver hair tucked beneath a red tasseled graduation cap.
Burrus began attending computer classes at the high school in January, her third time taking courses there over the past decade. Her interest in computing began with the emergence of personal computers in the 1980s, but it wasn't until this year that she learned how to use a keyboard and mouse.
"This world is going to be a computer world," she explained. "Everything is going to be run by computers."
Burrus was born in 1905 in a small Louisiana town, one of 10 children in a family of sharecroppers. Two years later, her family moved to rural Oklahoma where they grew cotton, corn, tomatoes and other crops. She attended school in a one-room school house in Boley, Okla. until her parents pulled her out to help support the family.
At 19, her parents arranged for her to marry a 50-year-old doctor from Tennessee, Porter Burrus Sr., who claimed he was 30-years-old and childless, according to her youngest son, Porter Burrus, Jr. Only after they traded vows did she learn his real age and meet his eight children from a previous marriage, he said.
Burrus' husband, who died in 1966 at the age of 88, persuaded her to stay and they went on to have 11 children of their own, including seven who graduated from Richmond High. She has 97 grandchildren and countless great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren, according to her son.
After World War II, the family moved to California to labor in Richmond's shipyards, part of a large migration of blacks to the Bay Area. Her son said his mother is active in her church and community and still drives often.
"She has one speed: quick," he said. "Once the garage door closes, get out of the way."
Her 74-year-old son, the Rev. Anthony Burrus, works as a mentor at the high school and encouraged his mother to take a computer class there. He drove her to school twice a week for the two-hour class.
Haidee Foust, Richmond High's principal, said Burrus is well-liked by her classmates, who show her a degree of respect rarely seen in today's teenagers. Students threw her a party and presented her with a plaque during the last week of classes.
The school decided to honor her at its graduation ceremony to emphasize the idea that "learning is a lifelong process," said assistant principal Marcia Hataye.
"She's found the fountain of youth in her thirst for knowledge," Principal Foust said. "When you learn new things and do new things, it keeps you young."
Escorted by two sons, Burrus led the procession of 256 graduating seniors entering the auditorium to the tune of "Pomp and Circumstance." Her ceremony was attended by several generations of family members, including her 11-year-old great-great-grandson Rodrick Rogers, who called her an "inspiration."
Along with the honorary high school degree, Burrus also received honorary degrees from a local elementary school and middle school. Standing at the podium, she told her classmates to obey their mothers and fathers and offered advice about aging.

"If you don't want to get old, gray and wrinkled, die young," she said.