Celebrating 20 years as the No. 1 book on personal finance. Does the school prepare children for the real world? That is the first question the reader is faced with in this book. The message is bold and direct: good training and high grades are not enough to ensure someone's success. The world changed; most young people have a credit card, even before completing their studies, and have never had a lesson on money, investments, interest, etc. In other words, they go to school, but remain financially inefficient, unprepared to face a world that values expenses more than savings. For the author, the most dangerous advice you can give a young person these days is: "Go to school, get high marks 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 employer, but having control over your own destiny or delegating it to someone else. That 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 find after graduating. And how can parents teach their children what the school relegates? This is another one of the many questions that the reader finds in Pai Rico, Pai Pobre. In this sense, the author's proposal is to facilitate the parents' task. Those who understand accounting should forget their academic knowledge, as many of the theories exposed by Robert Kiyosaki contradict the commonly accepted accounting principles, and present a valuable and modern perception of the way investments are made. Society undergoes radical changes and perhaps
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