Education is light but it doesn't guarantee success, education is good but information is better.
in todays world, education only helps you make a living, it rarely helps you make a life, i am talking about formal education, many people are going to school with the mindset of getting a high paying job after they graduate, our guardians, like our parents and teachers usually get our mind programmed that getting a good qualification marks the end of suffering in our lives,they usually tell us that education is the key to greatness, they are very right, but the padlock has been changed, the type of education that holds the key that can open the padlock of greatness is definitely not formal education.
you can go to schools nowadays to get intellectual knowledge but that's just it, many people going to school are not even intellectually sound, what we mostly have in schools now are educated illiterates, excuse me to use that word, the government on the other hand are not helping matters, in my country to get a good paying job what you study doesn't matter it's who you know, you can well work in an oil company despite studying agriculture, or medicine, to get a good life out of education now, you need either connection or information.
information on the other hand can be defined as knowing what other people don't know, and that's wisdom, if you must be upgraded you need to be updated, people don't depend on thier certificates anymore, because you end up collecting salary with it, and salary is a fixed asset, which in turn can limit you to so many things in life, information helps you earn passively, people venture into becoming an entrepreneur because of an information they stumbled upon, and they don't need thier certificate to do that, take for instance in nigeria, the igbos are good business owners who don't mostly have or use thier certificates, they are naturally born business men/women, at age 24 many of them already owns business that many graduates can only wish to afford, they are financially educated.
depending on education is like standing on a three legged table, you can fall at anytime, even if your certificate is putting food on your table now, what will happen to you anytime you stop being active, you may even get sacked without warning, what happens then? Education provides a short time solution to a long time problem, the only way to be financially free is to be on the lookout for good information, be prepared because good informations are surely everywhere, it only depends on where you are looking, if you can't find any good information anywhere, come to a place called the internet and you will find loads of them, just be careful which you pick.
Thanks for your time.