Ícaro de Carvalho (my marketing teacher) said some days ago how making (real) money can make the difference when situations like the one that happened in Manaus happen. And he told his students to stop waiting for the government to do something to help, because they are not going.

Ícaro is there, every day on the front line, exposing the fraud that our educational system is, and telling us that this system won’t help you to be someone who can, for example, pay R$ 40,000 to transfer your daddy from a hospital in Manaus to the best one in São Paulo and save his life.

And I will tell you: this it’s so true. In my years in prep school my mind exploded every day because there I was learning things that years in a regular public school didn’t teach me.

Ícaro, and many others that I’ll talk about in another post, are helping Brazilians to take control of their own lives, but it may take some time. Because, here in Brazil, people rely too much on the assumption that the government will do something to save them.

Anne Rios

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