Soweto: The Children Who Would Not Stay SmallSoweto, South Africa · 16 June 1976“Come softly to this fire. We are not here tonight to win an argument. We are here to remember children.”In apartheid South Africa, the schools for Black children were built on purpose to teach them little. The government called it Bantu Education, and its own ministers said plainly that there was no place for the Black child above certain kinds of labour.The lesson the elders kept: A government built its schools to keep children small, and the children refused to stay small. Any power that must shoot the young to hold its place has already lost the argument, even if it takes years to fall.