I'm frequently asked about the school system
and I think the school system is good and bad.
It's like everything.
I think schools as we know today,
there's some times I feel bad that I didn't
go through school, go on to school.
I think you develop a social intelligence in University
and higher sides of school that you don't develop
if you don't go there.
Now, that doesn't mean you can't.
You can but I think that's really the major purpose
behind higher education is you develop
the social intelligence.
You're mixing with intelligent people that are
into great ideas from all over the world.
Now, that being said, I think school is falling
far short of teaching what they should be teaching us.
I have two months formal education, high school.
I have been teaching how the mind operates
and how it functions to psychiatrists,
very, very competent psychiatrists.
I had one man, Abdula, come over from Saudi Arabia
into our Matrixx program, it's a six-day program that we do
and it's for really moving things on a higher level.
And he was telling me he learned more from me about the mind
in six weeks than he'd learned in 16 years of practice
as a psychiatrist.
I found that rather interesting.
School teaches us very little about ourself.
We are locked into the intellect in school.
It's important we get the degree.
If I filled in an application form at IBM,
I couldn't get a job washing floors because of my
formal education.
However, IBM will pay me more for one hour
than they may pay some of their managers for a month.
I just come in through the back door.
I don't follow the orthodox system.
I think we should start to understand what education is.
I think a lot of schools don't understand that.
Education isn't giving a person information.
Education is pulling out what we've got within.
I love the way Madam Montessori put it.
She said, "We teach sending kids to school
"like they're a cup and school's going to fill
"the cup with knowledge."
The truth is the cup is full.
Schools should teach us how to bring it out.
See, education itself, the word comes from the Latin educo,
meaning to educe, to develop, or to draw out from within.
School teaches us nothing about ourselves.
Schools teaches us nothing about the law of compensation.
Person leaves school, they have no concept
of how to earn money.
As a result, three percent of the population
earn all the money.
97% are scratching right from the cradle to the casket
and it's too bad.
They don't have to.
We teach people how to earn money.
I think earning money is one of the simplest things
in the world to learn how to do, but we must learn
how to do it.
There's laws of compensation.
They govern how much money you earn.
We've got to learn that.
If we don't learn it, we're going to go through life,
ya know, struggling.
There should be no struggle.
We're God's highest form of creation.
Earning money should be a game
and we should have more than we need.
We should be able to hand out and live and give
and really live the good life.
I think the school system has a lot to learn.
I had a lady that was a principal in the
parochial schools here in the Toronto area
and she loved what I was teaching.
She came to a number of our seminars.
Now, I'm going way back.
This is probably in the 80's.
The school system had what they called a live in.
Her system where all the principals
and heads in the education would go away to a place
north of Toronto for a weekend.
No, for a week.
It was a week and she was forever trying
to get me on the program.
I had a seminar I was teaching at the time
that I taught over eight weeks, eight evenings.
I taught it at the Hyatt Hotel in downtown Toronto.
So each seminar was about two and a half hours long.
And there was eight of them.
She really wanted to get me on the program at this live in.
So, finally, she did.
I was going to go up there Thursday night, Friday night,
and all day Saturday.
I was giving them the whole program
that we were selling at the time.
I gave them a set of eight cassettes.
I gave them a ring binder with the complete text
of all the lessons we're teaching
and I gave them the whole thing.
There was over 100 of them.
Didn't charge them a dime.
I had to drive from the Southeast part of Toronto
to about one hour north of Toronto
and I had to be there by seven.
I was working in a hotel in the southeast part
with the Toronto real estate board
and I couldn't leave til 4:00.
So between four and seven, I had to get through
the Toronto city traffic and get away up north of Toronto
where they were doing this.
So it was a real hustle.
I mean, I was moving.
I got there.
I worked Thursday night.
Friday morning, she was very embarrassed.
She phoned and told me they didn't want me to come back.
I guess I was causing them to feel just very uncomfortable
and I always thought that was too bad.
But, I wasn't surprised.
What do I think of the school system?
I think it's lacking in very important information.
People leave and they know very little about themself
and unfortunately, a lot of them leave up to here in hawk
that they've paid to go to school.
They got their degree and they can't find work.
We have to learn how to utilize the God-given abilities
that we've got and school, I think,
is a good place to teach.
Now, we should be teaching it at home.
I have attempted to with my kids.
If they just taught us how to make decisions.
I've never made a decision for my kids.
I never made a decision for my kids.
They're going to make them on their own.
It was a tough thing for them but, ya know,
they grew up knowing how to make decisions.
Most people don't know how to make a decision.
What do you think I should do?
And they're not looking for you to help them
with the decision.
They're looking for approval.
Why, because they don't have enough confidence
in what they're doing.
It's part of our educational system.
I think it's got to improve.
Now, mind you, I think it will.
I think it will 'cause I think everybody's
becoming more aware of who we are, what we are,
and what we're capable of doing.