“I consider it a triumph of my home education program that, when he died, none of my students knew who he was. “
Ignorance is not a triumph of education. Did you also not teach them about Stalin, Hitler, Lenin ....
Those are influential figures in world history to whom Nelson Mandela simply does not compare. They learned about some other Communists who overthrew crummy, but objectively superior, regimes, such as Fidel Castro.