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| Chapter I - Part 2 |
| Special Education |
| Nurses' Training Oct. 17, 1957 |
| Selected Speeches |
There is nothing that tends more readily to induce in Our heart feelings of
joy and solace, than to see the youth of Our land growing up and maturing
through education, in whatever sphere it may be. All the knowledge to be
drawn from the fountain-head of education, not only contributes to the
well-being of mankind and to the performance of humanitarian deeds, but
is also a veritable pillar upholding the liberty of the land. It is by the
strength of the knowledge gained from education that man develops his
ideas and brings his labours to success.
In choosing for your own sphere the vocation of nursing -- the caring for
and tending of the sick -- you have made a noble choice, for it is one of
the truly humanitarian professions. However, it will not always be in
hospitals fitted with every convenience that you will carry out this your
chosen task; you will have to go to all sorts of places where toil and
trouble await you. Your training and your profession make this incumbent
upon you. But how great a thing it really is, to be able to help your
fellow-men, tortured by pain and troubled by disease -- to bring rest and
relief to body and soul alike! Your own awareness of it may be limited,
but the patient who receives your care will surely feel it and appreciate it
deeply.
This said, it becomes necessary for Us to repeat to you today the words
of advice which We gave in 1956, to your sister nurses, on the occasion
when they similarily received at Our hands their certificates of graduation:
"Your profession calls for discipline -- the discipline of study and devotion
to obedience and duty, the discipline of self-restraint and cleanliness, and
the discipline of life-long devotion to learning, since knowledge knows no
bounds. If you take these fundamental disciplines as your guiding
principles, your work will display the highest qualities." You must be
nurses not merely in name, but truly in the obligations of that noble calling.
We are today laying the foundation-stone of a branch which -- subsidized
by a joint Ethiopian and Swedish fund -- will, in connection with this
hospital, care for the health of expectant mothers and infants. We are
very much pleased that in addition to its other functions this establishment
will provide training for the nursing profession. We trust that the School
will prove fruitful in supplying an adequate number of nurses.
Our beloved daughter, Princess Tshai Haile Selassie, who was cut off in
the flower of her youth, completed her training as a nurse. Following the
example of Florence Nightingale, she sought not her own comfort and
pleasure, but sacrificed herself in the service of the sick and the suffering.
With sincere devotion and compassion, she applied herself to the task of
succouring and comforting the sick, You who work or learn in this
Hospital which bears her name should have her example engraved on your
hearts and minds!
joy and solace, than to see the youth of Our land growing up and maturing
through education, in whatever sphere it may be. All the knowledge to be
drawn from the fountain-head of education, not only contributes to the
well-being of mankind and to the performance of humanitarian deeds, but
is also a veritable pillar upholding the liberty of the land. It is by the
strength of the knowledge gained from education that man develops his
ideas and brings his labours to success.
In choosing for your own sphere the vocation of nursing -- the caring for
and tending of the sick -- you have made a noble choice, for it is one of
the truly humanitarian professions. However, it will not always be in
hospitals fitted with every convenience that you will carry out this your
chosen task; you will have to go to all sorts of places where toil and
trouble await you. Your training and your profession make this incumbent
upon you. But how great a thing it really is, to be able to help your
fellow-men, tortured by pain and troubled by disease -- to bring rest and
relief to body and soul alike! Your own awareness of it may be limited,
but the patient who receives your care will surely feel it and appreciate it
deeply.
This said, it becomes necessary for Us to repeat to you today the words
of advice which We gave in 1956, to your sister nurses, on the occasion
when they similarily received at Our hands their certificates of graduation:
"Your profession calls for discipline -- the discipline of study and devotion
to obedience and duty, the discipline of self-restraint and cleanliness, and
the discipline of life-long devotion to learning, since knowledge knows no
bounds. If you take these fundamental disciplines as your guiding
principles, your work will display the highest qualities." You must be
nurses not merely in name, but truly in the obligations of that noble calling.
We are today laying the foundation-stone of a branch which -- subsidized
by a joint Ethiopian and Swedish fund -- will, in connection with this
hospital, care for the health of expectant mothers and infants. We are
very much pleased that in addition to its other functions this establishment
will provide training for the nursing profession. We trust that the School
will prove fruitful in supplying an adequate number of nurses.
Our beloved daughter, Princess Tshai Haile Selassie, who was cut off in
the flower of her youth, completed her training as a nurse. Following the
example of Florence Nightingale, she sought not her own comfort and
pleasure, but sacrificed herself in the service of the sick and the suffering.
With sincere devotion and compassion, she applied herself to the task of
succouring and comforting the sick, You who work or learn in this
Hospital which bears her name should have her example engraved on your
hearts and minds!
| Haile Selassie the First - October 17, 1957 |
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