Experts and lay people are both important in nation building and must be considered for the effective implementation of Education 5.0 where innovation is premised on heritage-based solutions.

This was said by President Mnangagwa yesterday at Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) after a virtual graduation ceremony.

Speaking after a tour of the CUT Agro-Industrial Park, Germplasm Laboratory and the Innovation Hub, the President used examples of his early life as a lawyer, to highlight the folly of disregarding others on the basis of their present circumstances or material lacks.

“The professor who knows the grandmother of Tshaka is critically important in the society in the same manner as the gardener who rears chicks, which the professor does not know how to do. If you realise that two situations are critically important in society, then you begin to be educated.

“In 1976, I was admitted to the bar of the High Court of Zambia and I was attached to the Dumbutshena Law Firm. I had no car and of course, I had already come from China and prison as a Zanla cadre.

“We used to argue with the former Chief Justice Dumbutshena in his car as we went to the High Court.

I was Zanla and he was Frolizi and UANC; he touched my shoulder and said: ‘Young man, our argument cannot finish; the way the world is structured is that some think and others implement. So you are a guerrilla and you will implement. I will think and implement’.”-The Herald