Mwalimu Nyerere alipata kunena yafuatayo kwenye chapisho lake la Education for Self Reliance (1967):
[...the few who go to secondary schools are taken many miles away from their homes; they live in enclave, giving permission to go into the town for recreation, but not relating the work of either town or country to their real life which is lived in the school compound. Later a few people go to university. If they are lucky enough to enter Dar-es-salaam University College they live in comfortable quarters, feed well, and study hard for their Degree. When they have been successful in obtaining it, they know immediately that they will receive a salary of something like £660 per annum. That is what they have been aiming for; they may also have the desire to serve the community, but the idea of service is related to status and the salary which a university education is expected to confer upon its recipient. The salary and status have become a right automatically conferred by the Degree
It is wrong of us to criticize the young people for these attitudes. The new university graduate has spent the larger part of his life separated and apart from the masses of Tanzania; his parents may be poor, but he has never fully shared that poverty. He does not really know what it is like to live as a poor peasant. He will be more at home in the world of the educated than he is among his own parents. Only during vacations has he spent time at home, and even he will often find that his parents and relatives support his own conception of his difference, and regard it as wrong that he should live and work as the ordinary person he really is. For the truth is that many of the people in Tanzania have come to regard education as a meaning that a man is too precious for the rough and hard life which the masses of our people still live.]
J.K. Nyerere, Education For Self Reliance, 1967.
Tafakari, chukua hatua.