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5 ways schools deliberately keep us poor
It goes a little something like this
- School doesn’t teach us jack shit about this game we call “life.”
From grades 1–12th, we spend 12,960 hours in a classroom setting without learning:
- Financial literacy
- Mental Health
- Taxes
- Time Management
- Acts of kindness
I will also like to add gardening, taxes, balance an account, and so on.
2. School wants us to be in debt for life.
A broke 18-year-old can go 200k in debt because of college, but can’t get a 10k business loan. Now, this makes utter sense, or does it?
3. School punishes us for failure.
Failure is a state of mind. If you think you’ve failed, then you did just that. If you look at it as a lesson, we gain from our mistakes. Failure is simply the opportunity to commence again, this time more intelligently.
4. School tells us to place our money in a savings account in lieu of investing it.
If you make 40k a year and invest a quarter of it, you’re on the right path.
With a rate of return of 12%, your savings could grow to roughly $9,000,000 after forty years.
5. School teaches and grooms us to listen to “superiors.”
Instead, it is important to be wary of where you get your advice. You can’t take advice from folks who have failed at what you want to accomplish.
Just saying, this is my experience from the indoctrination training camps dubbed “public schools.” How was your time spent?
