Schools teach people to be poor!
Posted Think back to being in school. We all learned subjects like Biology, Geometry, English, History… Who the 23rd President of America was (by the way, it was Benjamin Harrison). Some of us may even have majored in Economics. But did anyone teach us about how we could actually make money in our own lives? It’s no secret that I think it’s a huge problem that schools don’t teach financial literacy. Kids graduate from high school and even top universities without understanding the first thing about money and personal wealth. But as bad as that is, it’s actually much worse. I know this is a bold statement, but I believe schools are teaching people how to be poor. Here’s the message schools are pumping into our kids’ heads: Get an Education Get a Good Job Get Promoted and Earn a Higher Salary Then… They tell us to save part of our pay (the part that the IRS doesn’t raid first). They tell us to put that money into savings accounts (with interest rates that don’t even keep up with inflati