Nyerere the teacher: calling to honour teaching profession
A primary school teacher at work in one of the public schools in Tanzania. Father of the Nation Julius Kambarage Nyerere, himself a teacher by profession, had decried the fact that Tanzanian teachers tended to be accorded little social respect. photo | FILE
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Nyerere decried the tendency to view teachers as a powerless social group – calling it “one of the biggest fallacies of our society.”
