Comments on: Our Financial Education: It’s never too late http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/04/10/our-financial-education-its-never-too-late/ Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:51:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Writer's Coin http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/04/10/our-financial-education-its-never-too-late/#comment-873 Writer's Coin Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:32:27 +0000 http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/04/10/our-financial-education-its-never-too-late/#comment-873 Great points Brip, I agree on all counts. I guess the best way to teach kids is by example but I find it easier to get schools to teach it than it would be to get corporations and the government to change their ways. I do have faith that it will happen, I'm just not sure I have the answer. Great points Brip, I agree on all counts. I guess the best way to teach kids is by example but I find it easier to get schools to teach it than it would be to get corporations and the government to change their ways.

I do have faith that it will happen, I’m just not sure I have the answer.

]]> By: Brip Blap http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/04/10/our-financial-education-its-never-too-late/#comment-872 Brip Blap Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:10:16 +0000 http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/04/10/our-financial-education-its-never-too-late/#comment-872 It's never too late, but it certainly is better sooner! I don't even think it needs to be taught in school so much as practiced by our "elders" - our politicians, our civic leaders, our corporations. As long as they continue to contribute to America's slowly collapsing economy and financial health, it's hard to inspire today's youth to care - even if they do have a class in it. An interesting question to me is this: all of the information you would ever need to know - EVER - is available for free on the Internet. People don't take advantage of it. So why is it the schools' fault kids don't know PF? We don't ask the schools to teach health, do we (at least mine didn't) and that would help people, wouldn't it? I wouldn't trust a PF course created by the same brain trust that created NCLB, anyway... It’s never too late, but it certainly is better sooner! I don’t even think it needs to be taught in school so much as practiced by our “elders” - our politicians, our civic leaders, our corporations. As long as they continue to contribute to America’s slowly collapsing economy and financial health, it’s hard to inspire today’s youth to care - even if they do have a class in it.

An interesting question to me is this: all of the information you would ever need to know - EVER - is available for free on the Internet. People don’t take advantage of it. So why is it the schools’ fault kids don’t know PF? We don’t ask the schools to teach health, do we (at least mine didn’t) and that would help people, wouldn’t it? I wouldn’t trust a PF course created by the same brain trust that created NCLB, anyway…

]]> By: Frugal Dad http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/04/10/our-financial-education-its-never-too-late/#comment-858 Frugal Dad Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:55:22 +0000 http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/04/10/our-financial-education-its-never-too-late/#comment-858 You know I'm right there with you with this one! I've made a few enemies in education because of my stance, but as I explained in my article comments, I wasn't condemning teachers, I was condemning the bureacracy that sets cirriculum in schools. Personal Finance is seen as a threat to more traditional topics, when in fact it doesn't have to be. Even if there is no PF101 course dedicated to the subject, math, sciences and civics classes could all touch on it more than they do now. You know I’m right there with you with this one! I’ve made a few enemies in education because of my stance, but as I explained in my article comments, I wasn’t condemning teachers, I was condemning the bureacracy that sets cirriculum in schools. Personal Finance is seen as a threat to more traditional topics, when in fact it doesn’t have to be. Even if there is no PF101 course dedicated to the subject, math, sciences and civics classes could all touch on it more than they do now.

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