To Build Wealth, Don't Seek Higher Education

Summary: One of the most important determinants of building wealth during your educational life would have been a solid course in the history of education. Why? Because a solid understanding of the roots of institutional education would enable you to realize that most education puts you in debt at the same time as never teaching you how to build wealth. Henry Ford once stated that it was a good thing that people in America had no understanding of how banks truly worked because if they...

One of the most important determinants of building wealth during your educational life would have been a solid course in the history of education. Why? Because a solid understanding of the roots of institutional education would enable you to realize that most education puts you in debt at the same time as never teaching you how to build wealth. Henry Ford once stated that it was a good thing that people in America had no understanding of how banks truly worked because if they did, there most likely would be a revolution by tomorrow morning. This statement still holds true today. 99.9% of people, even the very people employed by banks, have no true understanding of how banks control economies. Think that banks in the United States actually keep the stated 10% of the Reserve Ratio Requirement (RRR) in their reserves? Think again. As well, most people have no true understanding of how educational institutions work. If they did, many people would realize that formal education can often hurt their ability to build wealth even more than it helps. Most people, no matter where they are educated, go through their educational life learning to become robots. The "authority" figure tells them that A+B = D and if the student disagrees and argues that A+B = C, then his or her reward is a less than satisfactory grade. So students spit back what the teachers tell them to think, they receive good grades, and for their obedience, are later rewarded with a good job. It's a perfect process to produce the perfect cog in the machine, the pod people represented in the film "The Matrix". How Educational Institutions Feed into the Debtor System More times than not, to attend higher education at a top ranked global institution, one will accrue between USD$80,000 to USD$200,000 in debt by the time one graduates, in essence trading an "elite" education for a lifetime of debt. Even if a family is wealthy enough not to accrue enormous debt to send their children to the top schools in the world, their child, before he or she even graduates, needs to start establishing "credit" if he/she ever wishes to successfully apply for a car loan or a home mortgage after graduation. However, "credit" is an extremely funny choice of words considering that to establish good "credit", one has to rack up lots of debt. If you don't rack up lots of debt and in turn prove that you can pay off this debt responsibly, then you will have "bad credit" instead of "good credit". And without "good credit", even if you have $1 million of "credit" in the bank, you'll have no credit. And with no credit, you won't be able to get a car loan or a home mortgage. Not even with $1 million in the bank. Not unless you offer your money as collateral for a secured loan. Credit cards should be renamed "debt cards" and institutions of higher learning should be renamed "institutions of higher debt" so at least every innocent, bright-eyed 18-year-old has no misconceptions about the dark side of credit cards and institutions of higher learning. The moneyed elites founded almost all of the top universities in every country in the world. If we look at the founders of the U.S. educational system, the moneyed elites founded Temple University, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Duke, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Harvard, and Stanford just to name a few. In the seminal book "Education and the Rise of the Corporate State", Joel Spring wrote that "the development of a factory-like system in the nineteenth-century classroom was not accidental". Russell Conwell, a member of the wealthy elite, validated Spring's assertion with statements he made before he founded one of America's oldest educational institutions, Temple University: "The men who get rich may be the most honest men you find in the community