Soos al geseg, die Nobel vir politiek, wetenskap en dies meer is dikwels HOOGS twyfelagtig, om die minste te seg, vir elke Mandela bv, is daar ’n De Klerk of Obama, en die wetenskap is verskriklik wisselvallig, wat vandag stand hou is more se grappe!
Dus is dit goed om te lees van iemand wat beloon word omdat hy dit werklik verdien:
There isn't a Nobel Prize for education. But this month has seen the launch of an award that would like to have such a similar international status.
The inaugural World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Prize was announced in Doha, Qatar, with the $500,000 (£310,000) award being given to Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, whose work has brought education to millions of children in impoverished families.
Sir Fazle, the first education "laureate", has worked across decades and continents to help communities to escape the quicksand of poverty and to gain skills and self-reliance.
Created in Bangladesh in 1972, his Brac project - formerly the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee - is now claimed as the biggest non-governmental organisation in the world.
An estimated 10 million primary pupils have been taught in schools set up by Brac across 10 countries, in such tough territories as South Sudan and Afghanistan.
But speaking after the award, Sir Fazle says that the greatest challenge for global education applies as much to the more affluent countries as to the poorest. And that big problem, he says, is inequity, the stubborn link between family income and educational outcome.
"A child born in a poor household has less chance of going to university than a child born in a wealthy household, in almost every society.
Jaaa, geld praat hard en baantjies vir boeties, dis presies hoe tallose onwaardige witmense bv gedurende Apartheid gehelp was met werk en geld en kwalifikasies wat hulle NOOIT verdien het nie, en wat hulle gesteel het uit die monde en hande van waardiges uit, dis een van die GROOT skandes van Apartheid waaroor wittes nie wil uitbrei nie ... daar was baie wittes wat skaars hul name kon skryf of een en een bymekaar kon tel, wat in vet poste opgedruk was ... dank die gode, uit die gemors en moeras van witte oorheersing het ’n Mandela verrys om die wêreld ’n beter plek te maak ...
Francois Williams