President Kagame said that during a cerebration of a 100 years jubilee of the Saint Leon Seminar located in Muhanga District in the South Province.
H.E Paul Kagame was presiding that ceremony and reminded all Rwandans in general that facing one’s history is among the keys to build a prosperous future.
President of the Republic said that both sad and positive historical sides of a nation should be recognized and assessed as to learn from that in order to go far in the future.
“History of a person and of a nation is something that should be recognized. You cannot escape from it. A normal person is the one who courageously faces his/her history” said the Head of State.
The President of the Republic urged the audience to keep learning from their history both negative and positive sides because both sides can be very insightful.
He told the current students in the seminar that their first duty is to learn and make a step froward to increase the value of Rwanda as their elders did.
President of the Republic assured the audience that however small one’s strength is, it can be increased for the fulfillment of one’s targeted objectives.
The Bishop of the Parish, Smaragde Mbonyintege, said that despite the fact that many of the Seminar’s students are poor,this does not hinder them from learning and perform better.
The ceremony took place at the Kabgayi Stadium and attended by different people who learnt from the school among whom the oldest studied in the Seminar in the 1940 at the time of WWII.
The first student to have attended the school was born in 1892. It hosted not less than 5.200 students among whom 400 embraced the priesthood benedictions. Others worked into different public and private institutions since then.
Among the eminent students from the school are ones who became the Head of State.
The Seminar has three sections: Physics-Chemistry and Maths-Chemistry and Biology.
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