We view education as being the launching pad and  space-suit of irreversible development. Until it is reckoned and given its due place in our development policies, our dreams of grandeur will remain as attainable as the horizon. But what is education ?

The Merriam-Webster's dictionnary defines education as ''the field of study that deals mainly  with method of teaching and learning in schools.'' Now, questions:

What are people ''teaching and learning in schools '' ? Is it sufficient and efficient ?

  Sharon L. Lechter (C.P.A., coauthor of Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant) has this to say:        ''I love my children and want to insure they get the best education possible ! Traditional schooling, while very important, is no longer enough. We all need to understand money and how it works.'' 

  Robert Kiyosaki, in his book Rich Dad Poor Dad (Chapter 1) goes farther to say:

''One of the reasons the rich  get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class struggles in debt is because the subject of money is taught at home, not in school. So what can a poor parent tell their child about money ? They simply say,'stay in school and study hard.' The child may graduate with excellent grades but with a poor person's financial programming and mindset. It was learned while the child was young./ Money is not taught in schools. Schools focus on scholastic and professional skills, but not on financial skills. This explains how smart bankers, doctors and accountants who earned excellent grades in school may still struggle financially all of their lives. Our staggering national debt is due in large part to highly educated politicians and governments officials making financial decisions with little or no training on the subject of money.''

  Our conception of education easily tranpires from the above quotations. we regard true education as being the process of training humans, whether young or old, to naturally display ''scholastic and professional skills'' as well as ''financial skills''. That is the bedrock of durable development. Wherefore we would rather design and support straightforward and simple-to-understand financial skills acquisition programs for all social strata including children. But we would not forget to facilitate the acquisition of scholastic and professional skills (by providing educational instutions with ultra-modern didactic materials), which we consider as a good preparation to attract and command money.