I don't think both education and becoming rich is related. In the history we can see various great leaders with no basic educational qualification. At the same time people with great education have also made history. I would like to take the first set of people as example because with education becoming rich is something quite obvious and anyone can do.
How education helps in becoming rich?
WIth basic education people can easily acquire the skills that will be necessary to become a rich person. A good student who is intelligent and highly dependent on education will make use of the knowledge gained from education to climb big ladders in the life to become rich. You can check success stories of so many great people in the world who studied really hard and reached a good position to own lots of money. Sundar Pichai is one good example you can take. There are many entrepreneurs all over the world who have been a good degree holder and who have been a great repository for huge wealth.
For people who don't care about straight forward methods to become rich, education is not at all a big matter to them. People with good talents as well as bad tallents somehow find a way to earn the money they require in life. It is either luck favours them or the hard work that helps them become rich.
Politicians in India
We can take Indian Politicians as a great example. Most of the politicians in India have no basic education. They either act in movies to become famous and then stand in election or they become famous from some other background. There have been leaders in India who cannot even read or write. Some of these politicians have been a good leader and some were and still are with great treasure and nothing else. Most of the politicians in India are well versed with lots of money. With that money only they try to win elections again and again.
Now this is going to be interesting for you. The image you see above went viral few months back. You can read about Sellur K. Raju who is one of the politician in Tamil Nadu, India who is very famous for his ignorance. He became very famous in just a small span of time. All he did was that he tried to prevent river water from evaporating by covering it with thermocol. He is one of the richest politicians in Tamil Nadu. He also quoted that he spent several lakhs in implementing this project. You can imagine now if education is required to become a rich person or not. Just imagine what type of education these politicians would have got. I have also heard stories where people who are rich enough are even capable of buying their fake degree. They don't really have to go to school or college to study. If they spend some enough money they will get their education degree. That is what many rich people have been doing in India.
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