 I read a tweet on Twitter recently where the author wrote that today, people go to school to get a first degree and a master's degree, only to come out and learn a skill that will make them money. The question is, why waste so much money and time going to school in the first place? Don't get me wrong, school is good and the system is terrific, only if people put it in the right perspective. But we live in a world where we have been so conditioned to keep doing the same thing and still expect a different result. In my country, with a very high unemployment rate, tertiary institutions always keep turning out thousands of graduates each year. If you tell most parents to think carefully about sending their kids to the university, they will curse where I am from. School is literally worshipped, but the rate of unemployed graduates keeps skyrocketing. If you plan to build a life of wealth, here are three free lessons you should learn, which I am certain school will make you pay for. 1. Entrepreneurship If you do not plan to become wealthy, but prefer to leave from paycheck to paycheck, get a job. However, if you want to build wealth that grows with you all your life, build a business. For many years, we have been conditioned to go to school and come out to get a job. Beautiful as school is, the wrong side to it is the conditioning it gives us to always look out for jobs and never create them. The downside is that we keep turning out youths who have a degree, but are never able to build a life of wealth. Although years have passed and most academic institutions have discovered the importance of teaching entrepreneurship in school, even those who teach the course do not even have a little experience in the business. You should go to school, but if you plan to build a life of wealth, you must have the understanding that school isn't designed to teach you about money. School is designed to fit you into a general mode where you get out and go seek a job. One day, when he was little, Robert Kiyosaki asked his father, why do I have to go to school? So you can come out and get a job, his father replied, why do I need to get a job, Robert Kiyosaki asked, so you can have money, his father replied. Then Robert Kiyosaki said, if I have to go to school to learn how to get a job, so I can make money, why do I need to go to school? Why didn't I just go learn about making money? His father gave no response. School is good, but will never teach you to build a successful business that makes you rich. 2. Education Most people think education is all about getting degrees, but I've seen hundreds of graduates in my country, working jobs so worthless I just can't imagine it. A friend of mine graduated as the best student in the department of electrical engineering. When he got out of school, he had the brain to go learn how to become a programmer. Now, he is a successful programmer. Listen to this, you go to school to get a degree, you come to life to get an education. School may give you a degree, which I say once again, is beautiful. Still, if you want the best out of life, if you're going to build a life where you never have to live from paycheck to paycheck, doing a job you hate, you must get an education by reading books and businesses, finances, and money. We spend four to five years in school learning a course of study, but we never think it wise to study money if we must have so much of it. It is like wanting to become a soldier. You don't want to go through the training, you just want to get it gone and start firing. If you want to know how money works, you must understand how to handle money. That means you must keep getting a continuous education about money. Today's education will not even cost you. There are tons of free materials on the internet and on YouTube to help you. 3. Experience and Expertise If a school doesn't teach you how to build a business, or help you get the kind of education that will help you manage money well, how will you gain the experience and expertise required to handle money? Most businesses fail too often before they succeed. You will never learn that in school. If you stay confined to school, if you stay limited to your academic books, never get out, get the lessons about life and build business experiences, you may likely come out broke. The reason is simple. Most of the jobs offered by college degrees can now be done with machines. Most available jobs now are technology-based, requiring the knowledge of information technology, and much more. If you are not sitting outside your school classroom, learning far much more than most of your lecturers who are stuck in medieval times, you may come out of school not knowing how to make your life work. When most of us left school, we were hoping we would get lucky as we had been taught. We spent quite an amount of time waiting for jobs that weren't there. It is hilarious how our parents are aware of the high unemployment rate, and still, they insist we must go to school to get a degree and come out to get a job. I value schooling, but if it leaves you with nothing but a paper certificate, it's not doing a good job. Get experience. Get expertise in building business. Don't just take jobs while in school. Know how the jobs work and create jobs. The future does not belong to job seekers. The future belongs to thinkers. And whether you like it or not, the future comes too early. The future is now. If this video inspired you, like the video. We love you.