This is the second post reviewing Robert Kiyosaki’s new collaborative online work – The Conspiracy of the Rich – this post is a review of Chapter 2 The Conspiracy Against Our Education. He says he was suspicious of the education system from the 4th grade, in other words he wondered at the age of nine why going to school and being well educated had not made his parents rich.
The issue is that schools are not set up to creat entrepreneurs. They are created on principles inherited from the Industrial Age where the aim was to turn out people who would have the skills to go to work for the corporations etc. He says we are taught how to work for the rich, shop at the stores of the rich and borrow money from the rich and banks plus invest in the businesses of the rich but not how to be rich.
This is backed by the fact that most successful entrepreneurs are not highly educated but are highly intelligent and have a sixth sense about how to select people to be in their Mastermind Group etc. In 1983 he read, Buckminster Fuller’s, Grunch of the Giants . He say’s you may not believe there is a conspiracy to keep us financially ignorant but without doubt our schools get an F Grade for teaching financial education.
By not having financial education you are exchanging freedom for money. The following is a direct quote from the book that really makes you stop and think:
“Keeping people ignorant about money is evil because many people do evil things for money, such as work for a job they do not like, work for people they do not respect, marry people they do not love, and expect something else - like their family or the government – to take care of them when they are capable of taking care of themselves.”
He says the idea that is still peddled that money is not important is obsolete because mankind has gone through 4 ages:
- Hunter Gatherer
- Agrarian
- The Industrial Age
- The Information Age – which we are now in
So now we are in the Information Age, Financial Education is even more important. Why? Kiyosaki’s New Rule For Money No.1 states Knowledge is Money. This is because in the Information Age millions can be made and lost at the speed of light as the result of good or bad of information. He states that Financial Education gives us the power to translate the mass of information now available into meaning, this meaning gives us the ability to make our lives better.
This last paragraph is why you will find logos to opportunities in businesses to make a new meaning for your life and become financially free.
