Pinoy Business Coach

Let's face it.  Our school system is just not adequate to prepare our children to accumulate wealth and riches.  The wealth of information in our schools are not able to place kids on the road to prosperity.  They are given redundant assignments that border between the silly and the naive.

As Jim Rohn observed "If school offered WEALTH 1 AND WEALTH 2, I would have taken both classes!"  We are heavily going to oblivion in a country of degrading values plus building a mindset that has a tendency to create a foundation for poverty.  The seed thus starts in the mind and if we are to dream of more prosperous Philippines then the seeds of success must be planted early, kids need to be trained in the "lessons of the street", disciplined to work and be responsible to look after their own.

Our culture is nourishing a sense of dependency and that really cultivates an ugly scenario.  We find kids in their early 20s not knowing what they want to do with their lives.  I remember being 11 years old when my mother sent me on a boat to Mindanao so as to accompany a shipment of eggs and dried fish for my aunt, where I was paid a commission. 

This mediocrity might not be true to all families but in my observation, is a real dilemma in today's society.  We must not sell our kids short of a brighter future.  Academic schooling will enable our children to earn a LIVING, while Self-education will enable them to earn a Fortune.