This article focuses on the impact that the initiation rite has on the teaching-learning process in Mozambique. This research's main objective is to analyze the impact of initiation rites on education, with a special focus on the Northern provinces. It also seeks the principles transmitted by initiation rites, the way in which they are approached and analyzes their influence on the entry and continuation of students at school, finding that these have brought some obstacles to the adaptation and insertion of modern education in force in the country, since the way education is given to them in the initiation rite process is different from the way the teaching process is in recent education. The research study shows that in the northern provinces of Mozambique the transformation to adulthood is done through initiation rites. To carry it out, qualitative methodology was used and information was collected through documentary research. The research concluded that initiation rites influence the teaching-learning process, because sometimes students are forced to leave school to go to practices. The article suggests that improvements be made to the interconnection between those responsible for formal education and local authorities to change the current reality of education, characterized by a decline in student attendance.