Dropping out of school may or may not be the right move for you, but don’t base your decision solely on on a tweet, or even a book.

Robert Kiyosaki likes to make points by saying shocking things and using hyperbole. Nothing he says should be taken literally, in my opinion (example).

A college degree does not guarantee success in life, but it doesn’t hurt. The idea that you should avoid getting a college degree to ensure your success is just wrong.

What can hold you back however, is student debt. College is not for everyone, because it is incredibly expensive and doesn’t always give you a useful education.

Some questions you should be asking yourself are:

1. What do I want to do as a career to earn a living? Will my college degree be useful for that? How likely will I be to succeed in this field with or without a degree?

2. How am I paying for school? How much debt will I have when I finish my degree? Is there another way to get the degree I need without debt (perhaps by switching to a less expensive school and/or working through school and cash-flowing the tuition)?

3. How am I doing in school now? Am I likely to graduate, or am I struggling?

There are many successful people both with and without college degrees. Some career fields require a college degree (e.g. engineering, medicine, law), and some do not (e.g. real estate, entepreneurship, the trades). But even in this second category, a degree does not hold people back (although student loans can).

Dropping out of school may or may not be the right move for you, but don’t base your decision solely on on a tweet, or even a book.

Robert Kiyosaki likes to make points by saying shocking things and using hyperbole. Nothing he says should be taken literally, in my opinion (example).

A college degree does not guarantee success in life, but it doesn’t hurt. The idea that you should avoid getting a college degree to ensure your success is just wrong.

What can hold you back however, is student debt. College is not for everyone; it can be incredibly expensive and doesn’t always give you a useful education.

Some questions you should be asking yourself are:

1. What do I want to do as a career to earn a living? Will my college degree be useful for that? How likely will I be to succeed in this field with or without a degree?

2. How am I paying for school? How much debt will I have when I finish my degree? Is there another way to get the degree I need without debt (perhaps by switching to a less expensive school and/or working through school and cash-flowing the tuition)?

3. How am I doing in school now? Am I likely to graduate, or am I struggling?

There are many successful people both with and without college degrees. Some career fields require a college degree (e.g. engineering, medicine, law), and some do not (e.g. real estate, entrepreneurship, the trades). But even in this second category, a degree does not hold people back (although student loans can).