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If you didn't get my e-mail michelle I wrote something else for you to put in your e-zine. Here it is...
Education: Is it really the Passport to Wealth Anymore?
Is education really the passport to wealth anymore?
To tell you the truth there is no simple answer. There are so many different factors that come into play it cannot simply be summed up in a simple yes or no answer. It all depends on many, many different things, coupled together with the definition of what you want in life.
In the “good old days” when many countries thrived on imperialism and a peasantry life style, many were illiterate and lacked the basic education. But those who could afford an education, the rich, had a definite advantage over everyone else. This was when education, any education so long as it taught you the basics, could almost indefinitely make you wealthy.
But these aren’t the good old days anymore; we’re living in a different society and the scope of desire is entirely different. Nowadays mostly everyone has their basic education and can read and write and do simple mathematics. But what if you didn’t? What if somebody you know, or don’t know, is living in a third-world or developing country and lacks this basic education?
Then most certainly education is the key to their wealth and escaping poverty. But let us not focus on the situation in other countries; the question of the sanctity of education comes from those already well developed countries including the U.S. and Canada.
This is a place where the most basic educational needs are met (and questioned), and for free! Nearly everyone has the ability to read and do the most basic of maths, so there is no reason for them to not be able to achieve what they want in life is there? The common notion is that going to University or College will make you smarter and therefore richer.
In this country, it does certainly not give you that certainty. The world is extremely competitive and global. Many jobs are simply being outsourced somewhere else. Although if one is not interested in becoming wealthy at all and lacks a certain creativity, then maybe formal education for them will be the easiest way to make money. Now there it says money, but not wealth.
As you might note working for somebody else can only go so far. Note though dropping out of university or college, or not going at all is not for everyone. It is only for those people who have the will, the discipline, the drive, the direction and the creativity to go out there and make it in business. Some people don’t know themselves well enough to pick and choose what they want to do.
Many after reading “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” by Robert T. Kiyosaki feel that they do not need to go to high-school, university, or college. They have misinterpreted his message. You have to be well educated to be successful, but not always in the traditional way. You have to go outside your scope of thinking and delineate from the regular teachings. Remember, either they do it, or they teach it (in a school).
Do you really think those professors and teachers know the key to wealth? Then what are they doing here (there)!? Go out and make some real money! So to tell you the truth you if you ask if education is the key to wealth, the answer is yes.
Remember…
A basic education is required of all people to become wealthy (after all we are living in the information age), but beyond that, education in the traditional sense may not be. You must educate yourself somewhere else; outside of the classroom. Education doesn’t stop at the doors of some institute. Education and learning is a lifelong process, but it truly is the key to wealth!
“See what everyone else is doing…and then do the exact opposite.”
-Unknown
By: Harry J. Chong
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