Make education your husband Without schooling, a girl is left stranded in the home. For black South Africans this may mean being a servant in the home of a white family. He will never tire of you. If I was growing up during these times of yours, my child, I would not bother getting married. She believed that just as we teach children to walk, so we should give them at least primary education.
Education is a debt that each generation owes the next.
For an African woman of her age and circumstance, Mama was very progressive in her thinking. Her husband will look after her,' is the thinking of officialdom, and this is reinforced by law. Despite an abundance of evidence to the contrary, the myth persists that for every woman there is a man out there who will always be able and willing to provide for her every need. And so, in places where resources are scarce, it is the girl child who misses out on an education. Thanks to my mother, I was lucky.