Graphic Online BY: Ajoa Yeboah-Afari 705 A recurrent online video, a skit featuring an exchange between a white teacher in America and one of her black primary school pupils, beautifully illustrates, I think, the proverb that ‘many a true word is spoken in jest’. The following is a transcription of their conversation: Teacher (T): “I want you to take every single assignment I give you seriously and do the very best job you can. Success in life depends on a good education.” Kenny (K): “Not always.” K: “That's not what my brother says.” T: “What does your brother say?” K: “My brother says it's not what you know, it's who you know.”