The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
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I happen to know a bit about banking.
Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.
Yes, being educated is definitely an advantage. But having said that, I've met so many people in life who haven't done very well at school but who are still really bright.
No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
You don't have to become an investment banker as a way of demonstrating that education has worked for you. But librarians have to believe in the values of high culture. Not just high culture but middle culture, low culture, kinds of exciting eye-catching crap of all kinds. Everyone needs that.
When you're educated, you must offer others a road to success.
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.
If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.