Segment: Successful People Don't Need Degrees

What if the biggest difference between people who build real wealth and those who chase degrees isn't how many certificates they collect or how well they speak English, but understanding that the entire education system was designed not to make you successful but to make you employable, that the young lady on a flight to China holding $200,000 without a professor's credentials discovered something universities will never teach you, and that the mechanic who fixes your car the contractor who builds your house and the shoemaker who crafts your shoes are all educated people who never needed a classroom to create value and earn money in a world that worships certificates while the certificate holders struggle to pay their children's school fees? In this raw and unfiltered conversation on Konnected Minds, we sit down with someone who reveals why there's this wholesale information they give us to make you feel you've been given an education to face life when really it's just like somebody going to learn trade, why if you go to the websites of a lot of our investors and see who they are trading and where they are trading them to it's to go and look for a job, why the main import of especially university education is so that you can come out and somebody should give you a job, and why when schools are having anniversaries the people they hail are those who have been employed in multinational positions and government positions more than somebody who has a provision shop somewhere. He breaks down why education doesn't mean you need to sit in the classroom, why that mechanic who has been fixing your car is educated even though he's not a graduate, why the contractor is educated even though he may not have a degree, why we need to let people who are going through that system understand that they are not necessarily going to get a job after and that they should look at business as an alternative or maybe even the main thing, and why this system has been there for so many years to keep people poor especially in Africa. But he also confronts the brutal reality of what certificates actually mean. Why how many professors in this country can confidently say they have $500,000 or $200,000, why he's been going to China and was in a flight with one young lady sitting by him holding $200,000 from her collar going to China, why this whole thing about go to school you have to be educated means you don't have to sit in a classroom before you can be educated, why knowledge you can acquire and he believes in self education not this whole thing about go to school and after school, and why we need to have trade schools here in Africa in Ghana so that if you complete secondary school you can say okay I want to be a shoemaker and go to a vocational school for that. He reveals why the only vocational schools we have here are for cooking and bread making, why we don't have trade schools but we need them if we want to succeed as a country, why everybody wants to go to university and become a lawyer because they can argue and speak good English, why you don't have to speak good English to succeed in life, why you don't need that certificate to succeed in life, and why you need education but you don't need certificates. But he also shares his personal journey of discovering this truth. Why about 15 years ago life was so difficult for him and he decided to study successful people, why he realized those successful people know something the ordinary poor person doesn't know, why he studied why is this guy successful and realized all the successful people have something in common, why they all have a certain skill or a business because in this life there are only two ways to make money through a product or service, why all the successful people in our world have it, and why it wasn't about certificate. He explains why education is different from school, why the one we have is the boxers to go to school where the knowledge is contained, why what you need in life to succeed is education and especially personal education where you teach yourself for life, why you can't become successful in life holistically just because you have an engineering degree, why there are so many engineers who don't understand life, and why critical things in life like character advantage over money family health and influence in society are not taught in any particular course in the university. But he also reveals the sophisticated understanding that separates life education from school education. Why those who didn't sit in any particular classroom to study physics or chemistry may not necessarily be disadvantaged because they still are open to learn the basis you need for life, why there's life education and there is school kind of education, why many of us think that once we have the school kind it means we are equipped enough when he will not place it more than 10% of the information you need, why the school one is what many of us were pushed through and they..