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

Get Off the Plantation
My poor dad became a teacher because he was a product of the 
plantation system of Hawaii. His father, my grandfather, came over on 
a boat from Japan to work in the sugar and pineapple fields of Hawaii.
As an employer, I occasionally interview potential employees 
looking for a job. Sadly, most are focused on only wages and benefits: 
“How much will you pay me?” “What are my benefits?” “What
are the hours?” “How much time off can I have?” “How fast can I
get promoted?”
No one has ever asked: “What is the mission of this company?” 
“What problem is the company solving?” “What can I learn from 
working here?”
Rather than ask socially responsible questions, they ask questions 
about money and working conditions. They ask questions from a 
proletariat’s frame of mind.
This working-class programming begins when parents say to their 
child: “Go to school to get a high-paying job,” or “Go to school and 
become a lawyer, doctor, or web designer. If you have a profession, you 
will always have something to fall back on.”
Remember rich dad’s #1 rule: The rich don’t work for money. 
Home is where proletariat programming begins. Working-class 
parents want their kids to become higher-educated working-class people, 
people who ultimately work for the ultra rich.
When a child enters school, the teachers (who are also from the 
proletariat class of capitalism, a class that does not own production) 
continue the programming by saying, “If you do as I tell you and get 
good grades, you will beat your classmates to that high-paying job.” 
Once the child enters college, beating out many of their lesser 
classmates, the teachers continue with their working-class dogma, 
saying, “If you have a master’s degree or a PhD, your resume will look 
better. The higher your degree, the better your chances of getting that 
high-paying job.”
Pavlov caused his dogs to salivate by ringing a bell. Our education 
system rings the school bell, chiming the promise of a high-paying job. 
All someone has to say is “high-paying job,” and people start lining up.
If a person “wins” by getting that job and beating out the lesser job 
candidates, they are only too happy to agree to have their taxes deducted 
from their paycheck—so the government gets paid before they do.

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they were put up in plantation housing and were given a charge 
account at the company store. 
“When payday came, the immigrants found the rent for the 
house and the charges from the company store deducted from their 
paycheck. At the end of the month, most workers had nothing left. A 
few owed more money because they charged too much at the company 
store. Many immigrants never received any money.
They worked for free.”
He would end his talk by saying, “This is why you have to study 
hard—so you can get a job off the plantation.”
In my father’s immediate family, education was cherished. Most 
of my relatives have advanced degrees. Many relatives have master’s 
degrees and a few have their doctorate degrees. I am one of the few 
with only a Bachelor of Science degree.
The problem is that many of my relatives work for the biggest 
plantation of all, the government. A few of their highly educated 
children work for modern plantations with names such as Coca-Cola, 
United Airlines, Bank of America, and IBM.
Most of my family, although highly educated, never made it off
the plantation.