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CHAPTER FOURTEEN

WHAT DID You LEARN

FROM YOUR FATHER?

Robert's Response

Mydad was agreat man. Evenasa child, I looked up to him and respected
him. I was proud to be his son, and I wanted him to be proud ofme.
On the first day ofschool, teachers would read the classroster and every
teacher would stop after calling out my name and say, "Is Ralph Kiyosaki
your father?"
My dad was the head ofeducation for the state ofHawaii. He was tall
for being Japanese, about 6' 3': so he stood out in more ways than one. He
wasknown as a brilliant man and an independent thinker. He had graduated
at the top ofhis class as valedictorian and was respected as a great educator
in the school system of Hawaii. Just before he passed away, he was
recognized as one ofthe top two educators in Hawaii's history.I remember
him showing me the newspaper article about the award and he was crying.
As the article said, he had dedicated his life to education and Hawaii's
children.
My dad had originally planned on going to medical school. Our family,
for generations, had been medical doctors. But when he was in high school,
on the island of Maui, he noticed that his classmates were rapidly
disappearing from class. As student president of his class, he went to the
principal to find out where the kids were going. At first, he got the
runaround, but he finally learned the truth. He found out that the sugar
plantation that most of the kids' parents worked for had a standing order
that 20 percent of the kids had to be failed , regardless of how they were
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