So I'm done reading the Financial Bible a.k.a Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. I've been posting parts and pieces from the book on here to give you out there an insight of the book and how knowledgeable it is about the financial world and also in the knowledge of one's self. So this is the final quote from the book but we would keep making references to the book in our forthcoming projects. So please enjoy.
"As you know, most people are programmed
early in life to “Go to school and get a job.” School is about finding a
job in the E or S quadrant. It is not about finding your life’s path. ( E for employee S for self-employed)
At the same time, upon a friend’s recommendation of a friend,
I signed up for a personal-development course, hoping to find out
who I really was. A personal-development course is non-traditional
education because I was not taking it for credits or grades. I did not
know what I was going to learn, as I did when I signed up for real
estate courses. All I knew was that it was time to take courses to find
With the diagram complete, the instructor turned and said,
“To develop into a whole human being, we need mental, physical,
emotional, and spiritual education.”
Listening to her explanation, it was clear to me that traditional schools
were primarily about developing students mentally. That is why so many
students who do well in school, do not do well in real life, especially in the
As the course progressed over the weekend, I discovered why I disliked
school. I realized that I loved learning, but hated school.
“A” students are “A” students simply because they made the fewest
mistakes. The problem with that emotional psychosis is that, in the
real world, people who take action are the ones who make the most
mistakes and learn from them to win in the game of life.
When criticized for making 1,014 mistakes before creating the
electric light bulb, Thomas Edison said, “I did not fail 1,014 times.
I successfully found out what did not work 1,014 times.”
The more I studied, the more curious about traditional education
I became. I began to ask questions such as:
• Why do so many kids hate school?
• Why do so few kids like school?
• Why are many highly educated people not successful
• Does school prepare you for the real world?
• Why did I hate school but love learning?
• Why are most schoolteachers poor?
• Why do schools teach us little about money?
Those questions led me to become a student of education outside
the hallowed walls of the school system. The more I studied, the more
I understood why I did not like school and why schools failed to serve
most of its students, even the “A” students.
