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Reed really laid it into Kiyosaki with this MONEY quote:
"Contempt for traditional education and the educated
The book is almost entirely contemptuous of formal education and those who have graduated from universities. He wrote another book called If you want to be rich and happy, don't go to school? On page 64, he delights in the fact that (quotation marks)educated people(quotation marks); now (quotation marks);came at [rich dads] beck and call, and cringed when he did not approve of them.(quotation marks); This is a bit sick. To borrow a phrase that is now a common sitcom punch line, I think Kiyosaki has (quotation marks)some issues(quotation marks); regarding educated people and his relationship with his highly educated (quotation marks)poor dad.(quotation marks) He seems to have some psychological need to dominate and demean people like his father. At my guru-rating page, I said Dave Del Dotto was the dumbest of the real-estate gurus. Kiyosaki takes the prize for the real-estate guru with the most tangled psyche."
I have to admit, there is a psychological appeal/tension in the title "Rich Dad, Poor Dad." As Freud identified, the father / son relationship is one of the most common sources of angst that most males can relate to. Kiyosaki's framing of his advice book within such a relationship adds to the ability of his book's ability to connect. It taps into the psychological impulse for males to compare themselves to their fathers and their fathers' expectations.
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