Celebrating 20 years as the #1 personal finance book. Does school prepare children for the real world? This is the first question the reader is faced with in this book. The message is bold and direct: good education and high grades are not enough to guarantee someone's success. The world changed; Most young people have a credit card, even before completing their studies, and have never had a lesson about money, investments, interest, etc. In other words, they go to school, but remain financially inefficient, unprepared to face a world that values spending more than saving. For the author, the most dangerous advice that can be given to a young person today is: “Go to school, get good grades and then look for a safe job”. The fact is that now the rules are different and there is no longer a guaranteed job for anyone. Rich Dad, Poor Dad demonstrates that the issue is not being an employee or an employer, but rather having control over your own destiny or delegating it to someone else. This is Robert Kiyosaki's thesis in this substantial and visionary book. For him, the training provided by the educational system does not prepare young people for the world they will encounter after graduation. And how can parents teach their children what school relegates? This is another one of the many questions that the reader encounters in Rich Dad, Poor Dad. In this sense, the author's proposal is to make the task of parents easier. Anyone who understands accounting should forget academic knowledge, as many of the theories exposed by Robert Kiyosaki contradict commonly accepted accounting principles and present a valuable and modern perception of the way investments are made. Society is undergoing radical changes and perhaps
