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Lesson 16

What is the Best Way to Make Money?

The book “Rich Dad Poor Dad” became an international bestseller because of

its intriguing ideas on how to make money. The writer, Kiyosaki, a Japanese Ameri-
can, presented two kinds of dads: a rich dad who loves wealth and a poor dad who

loves education. The rich dad thinks that one doesn’t have to have a college degree
in order to make money. In fact, he criticizes schools as old fashioned and quite use-

less in the practical world of making money. He thinks that financial literacy should
come first before anything else. The poor dad believes in the merit of old fashioned

education focusing on morals and values. Needless to say, Kiyosaki agrees with the

rich dad’s ideas. He thinks we should teach people as early as possible, the value
of money. He thinks that most people lack financial literacy, and so they are always

a slave of money all their lives. Unless they build their own corporation and be freed
from the government’s tax burdens.felt hurt and righteously indignant. So at that time

of passion, we may have felt like pick up our bag and walk out the door or fight back
to make matters worse. Have you ever felt like quitting before out of sheer frustration

with your boss or humiliation? Did you ever fight back? Difficult or lenient, right or
wrong, the boss is still the boss.

Comprehension

1. Describe the two dads in the book, Rich dad Poor dad.
2. Why does the writer Kiyosaki think people are slaves of money?

Questions

1. What do you mean by being caught in the “human rat race”?
2. What do you think of his ideas about schools being useless?
3. What can you say about his ideas of building one’s own corporation
and escaping heavy tax burdens?
4. What do you think is the best way to make money?

Vocabulary & Expressions

Intriguing: to achieve or earn by appealing to another’s curiosity, fancy, or interest
Literacy: to achieve or earn by appealing to another’s curiosity, fancy, or interest
Merit: claim to respect and praise
Burden: that which is borne with difficulty; obligation
Old fashion: no longer fashionable, in wide use, etc.; out-of-date; outmoded
Lack: deficiency or absence of something needed, desirable, or customary
indignant: expressing anger and surprise, because you feel insulted or unfairly treated

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