Ray Dalio

My dad was a jazz musician.

My mom was a stay at home mom.

And but I was lucky to have parents who cared for me.

And I went to a public school and I got a good education and I came out to a world of equal opportunity.

And I believe that those are fundamental necessities.

that you have to know how to have an education of, you know, facts like you have to know how to read, write, and arithmetic, but you also have to know how to behave well with others, to be a good citizen, operate in a civil way, to be able then to go into jobs.

And that those jobs, that education,

can be anything that works.

I think the big thing is, you know, three big things on what I think work should be.

Make your work and your passion the same thing and make it economic.

If it works, that you love your work, you'll probably be better at your work.

And then you find the...

So you want those things and then the then there's the economics of it.

And so it could be anything from learning trades, whatever it may be.

Education certainly does not have to be college.

College is overemphasized.

and having a good productive career.

When I watch these remarkable people who are on the front lines of dealing with this virus situation and I look at them, some of the greatest people are the people who have the capabilities of doing certain things that have nothing to do with going to college and they're on the front lines and they're contributing a lot.

And so in education,

and civility, but that means that there has to be equal opportunity.