Support our award-winning journalism. The Premium package (digital only) is R30 for the first month and thereafter you pay R129 p/m now ad-free for all subscribers.
New DA parliamentary leader John Steenhuisen addressing the Press Club over party leadership crisis after resignation of their leaders in Cape Town on October 28 2019. Picture: ESA ALEXANDER/SUNDAY TIMES
DA parliamentary leader John Steenhuisen may not have been to university, but nor did Winston Churchill, arguably the best UK prime minister. He earned two A levels at Harrow and only got into Sandhurst Army Academy at his third try.
Charlie Munger, vice-chair of Berkshire Hathaway, is also sceptical of universities. At 2019’s Daily Journal annual meeting he argued that the “definition of being properly educated is being right when the professor is wrong. Anybody can spit back what the professor tells you. The trick is to know when he’s right and when he’s wrong. That’s the properly educated person”.
Peter Meakin Via e-mail
JOIN THE DISCUSSION: Send us an e-mail with your comments. Letters of more than 300 words will be edited for length. Send your letter by e-mail to busday@bdfm.co.za. Anonymous correspondence will not be published. Writers should include a daytime telephone number.
Support our award-winning journalism. The Premium package (digital only) is R30 for the first month and thereafter you pay R129 p/m now ad-free for all subscribers.
LETTER: Proper education
DA parliamentary leader John Steenhuisen may not have been to university, but nor did Winston Churchill, arguably the best UK prime minister. He earned two A levels at Harrow and only got into Sandhurst Army Academy at his third try.
Charlie Munger, vice-chair of Berkshire Hathaway, is also sceptical of universities. At 2019’s Daily Journal annual meeting he argued that the “definition of being properly educated is being right when the professor is wrong. Anybody can spit back what the professor tells you. The trick is to know when he’s right and when he’s wrong. That’s the properly educated person”.
Peter Meakin
Via e-mail
JOIN THE DISCUSSION: Send us an e-mail with your comments. Letters of more than 300 words will be edited for length. Send your letter by e-mail to busday@bdfm.co.za. Anonymous correspondence will not be published. Writers should include a daytime telephone number.
No more ‘blue wobbly jelly’, John Steenhuisen says of the future DA
Natasha Mazzone is the new DA chief whip
GARETH VAN ONSELEN: The DA risks learning nothing
Would you like to comment on this article?
Sign up (it's quick and free) or sign in now.
Please read our Comment Policy before commenting.
Most Read
Published by Arena Holdings and distributed with the Financial Mail on the last Thursday of every month except December and January.