School Quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“School is a factory where the raw material called student is turned into a product called employee.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“With homework, school prepares students for overtime. With reports, it prepares them for payday.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A diploma is a piece of paper that is used to acquire another piece of paper: an employment contract.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“School fools a lot of people. Professionally, one thing is not the most that one person can be.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Assuming that all ‘unschooled’ people to lack education is akin to assuming that a salary is the only means to make money,…

— 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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Belonging to the working class is the economy’s punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Starving whilst schooled is like a man’s finding out that his wife is on her periods … a few seconds after he…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You don’t really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Most adults have dropped out of the school of life before they reached adulthood.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Employment was invented to make education seem useful.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana