My Children! My Africa! Lesson Plan

At the end of scene 4, Mr. M says "History has got a strict timetable. If we're not careful we might be remembered as the country where everybody arrived too late." What do you think it would have looked like if South Africa had arrived too late? Do you think that happened? What things in society illustrate that view?

Mr. M is talking about his great sense of urgency about educating his students. From this passage in the play it is clear he has a sense that it is possible for South Africa to arrive "too late." This might be because Mr. M thinks if South African society doesn't change that the effects of Apartheid will be irreversible; it might be because he fears if there...