What Schools Will Never Teach You About Money By Robert T. Kiyosaki

Lessons from Sunday School
I am not very religious, yet I learned very important lessons in 
Sunday school. Two lessons applicable today are:
1. “Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth.”
The meek does not mean the weak. The meek are those 
who are humble enough to know they need to reduce their 
arrogance and be willing to learn anew.
2. “My people perish from a lack of knowledge.”
The real financial crisis is a crisis of an educational system that is 
old, obsolete, and out of touch with the real world. The financial crisis 
will not go away until our schools inform students about the truths 
behind jobs, work, taxes, and investing. It is time our schools stop 
training students to become monkeys with their fist stuck in a tree.
If we don’t teach people about money, we will have many more 
people like my poor dad, a very good, well-educated, hard-working, 
and honest man, but a man who died angry at the rich and expecting 
the government to take care of him.
It is time we set people free. Financial education can do that.
Good luck reading this book, and may you gain more knowledge, 
because knowledge is real money.
Taking action is important because we learn by our mistakes. 
The idea that mistakes are bad is a bad idea. If people do not make 
mistakes, they fail to learn, which is why my poor dad remained poor. 
Rather than look at the loss of his job, the election, and his ice cream 
business as blessings, he looked at his failures just as a school teacher
would and punished himself for making mistakes. He died a poor 
man, not realizing that his failures were his biggest opportunities to 
learn and to grow. 
You see, in school, students who make the most mistakes are 
labeled stupid. In the real world, people who make the most mistakes 
and learn from them, become smarter people.
I am happy to report that today I make much more money than 
my classmates who were the “A” students and became doctors and 
lawyers. I make more money simply because I made more mistakes 
and learned from them.
I am not saying this book has the best advice for you. As Warren 
Buffett says, “Fortunately, there are many ways to financial heaven.” I 
found my way to financial heaven. It is up to you to find your way. This 
book is merely a guide, not an answer book, because in the real world 
there are no right answers. There are only answers that work for you.
The primary reason for this book is to offer you new ideas, new 
ways of looking at the subject of money.
There are many things that I write about that might cause you to 
say, “This is too good to be true.” And they are too good to be true 
if a person is limited in financial education and real-life experience. 
Yet for me they are true and can be true for those willing to dedicate 
more time to their real-life financial education.
Everything in this book is about real life. This book is filled with 
thoughts, actions, and experiences used every day in my life. This 
book is about the unfair advantages available to all of us if we are 
willing to invest in our financial education and learn. I offer these 
ideas with the intent of challenging old ideas and opening your mind 
to new ideas.

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Chapter One