04/11/2025
I’m not here to challenge the system, especially the African education system.
But let’s be honest…
If schools had the courage to tell students these 7 brutal truths, Africa wouldn’t be full of graduates looking for jobs, it would be full of men and women creating empires.
Because the problem isn’t intelligence.
It’s mental slavery disguised as education.
Let’s talk about it
7 Truths African Schools Should Teach Students:
1. Good grades don’t guarantee success.
Discipline, mindset, and connections do.
2. The world doesn’t reward effort, it rewards results.
No one pays you for trying, they pay you for winning.
3. Your degree is just paper.
Your value comes from the skills you can trade, not the certificate you hang on your wall.
4. Money is not evil.
It’s power, and power in the wrong hands is what’s destroying Africa.
5. No one is coming to save you.
Not the government, not your parents, not your teacher, you are your own rescue plan.
6. Rejection and failure are teachers.
If you can’t handle them, you’ll stay broke and bitter forever.
7. Success requires rebellion.
You can’t follow the system and expect to rise above it.
You’ll have to unlearn everything they told you was “right.”
They trained us to be employees, not thinkers.
To follow orders, not to question them.
To fear risk, instead of mastering it.
But a new breed is rising, the ones who think, build, and refuse to bow.
That’s the generation that will rewrite Africa.
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Culled from- the jokers forum 2