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When I was growing up, my parents would repeatedly say to me:

"Go to school, work hard to get good grades. If you don't get good grades, you won't get a good job"

Question is; "Isn't the reason for getting a job to make money? If that's the case, why doesn't the school system teach us about money, instead of giving us theories upon theories to memorize?

I found it difficult to memorize all these theories. My teachers said I was lazy, unserious, indisciplined, and dull.
The tests and exams were tiring and annoying, but I had no choice. We were being turned into machines; cabbage in, cabbage out. With no opportunity to explore our creativities or passion. We were being pumped with notes upon notes, and were expected to pour all these on the exam paper. Most of us couldn't cope, some lagged behind with poor grades. It wasn't because they weren't hardworking, serious or intelligent, they weren't just in just cut out for it.

Albert Einstein once said,

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

Every year the school system churns out thousands of graduates. Majority of these graduates already see themselves as failures, because according to the school system; you fail when you leave with very poor grades.
The system douses the light of their genius.
Failure in school doesn't determine failure in life.

You determine whether you fail or succeed in life, not your grades.

The banker won't ask for your grades, he would value you based on your worth.

Everything I am now is a result of personal development, not my grades.
I invested thousands of hours of study, learning skills, aquiring knowledge. I got what the school system would never have given; financial education, by study and research.
The school system manufactures employees, who know little or nothing about finance.
Robert Kiyosaki in one of his books said,

he was a poor student in school, his report cards were never very impressive. When he realized that a banker was more interested in the cash flow of a property than the grades on his report card, he knew he had a shot in life. Thanks to his rich dad, he understood cash flow. And he learned that our report card, in real life, is our financial statement. According to him; a banker can tell a lot about a person from their financial statement and in the real life world financial intelligence is more prized than As and Bs in school.

Unlearn those irrelevant things you learned in school and start acquiring financial intelligence by getting financial education.

Times have changed, what worked for the previous generation is now obsolete. The industrial era - going to school, getting a job, retire and live the rest of your life on pension, is long gone. This is the information age, were people get value for their knowlege and skill.

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