Speaking one’s mind once is more honorable than quoting a…

“For the most difficult way to be retweeted, or, liked: be thought-provoking. For the easiest way: quote Oprah, or, the Bible.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is better to read one intellectually challenging book every 12 months … than to read 12 entertaining books every month.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Beliefs are conclusions reached by men who are lazy to think for themselves.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“School overpopulates students’ minds with too much of what happened yesterday; seldom with what the students can do today, or, tomorrow.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“School forces unique individuals to think, act, and, look alike.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Somebody is born. Somebody goes to school. Somebody learns to conform. Somebody types a CV. Somebody gets a job. Somebody follows orders. Somebody gets…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“He who fails to achieve a dream set by himself is more honorable than he who succeeds in achieving a dream set by his…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A specialist’s mind is a slave to his specialization.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Perhaps the most powerful and appealing aspect of another's words, however, is simply their convenience. Whether distilled in the briefest apophthegm, or spread out…

— Jasper Siegel Seneschal