Education
``Our programs undertaken in the economic field for augmenting the material
welfare of Our subjects, has not made Us forget that, according to the words of
the Bible. "man does not live by bread alone." We believe that the spiritual and
moral welfare of Our people is as important as their material well-being. Thus,
it is that following the liberation of Ethiopia from the yoke of the enemy. We
have devoted a very large part of Our budget and national revenues for the
establishment and development of schools. During this short period of ten years
no less than fifteen secondary schools, of which the last, the General Wingate
School, was opened by Ourselves this year, have been established directly as a
result of Our initiative and direction. The number of students enrolled in
schools in Ethiopia has nearly tripled during that same period. Shortly, the
University, the foundation- stone of which We have laid, will be opened under
Our direction. We face with confidence the future of public instruction in
Ethiopia.
If We have made so many sacrifices for the education of Our youth. it is because
We are convinced that only through intellectual progress and universal education
can Ethiopia come into its own and make its just contribution to the history of
the peoples of the Middle East. We believe that from truth alone is born liberty
and that only an educated people can consider itself as really free and master
of its fate. It is only with an educated people that representative and
democratic organs of government can exercise their influence for national
progress. Our Address from the Throne therefore testifies to the importance
which We attach to education and, at the same time, to your role as
representatives, in the development and progress of Our people....``