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I don't think I've articulated my point correctly.
It's not about financial skills, it's about learning things that will actually help me after college... financial skills being one facet.. and not buying things i can't afford doesn't help me with stock trading, understanding investment banking, and other things. also, then how do i buy a house, or a car, if I can't pay for it all at once? these are all questions i know the answers to, but should be taught in school anyways... I shouldn't have to research such important things on my own time while I learn how the Spanish killed the Incans however many years ago.
Do you really want the government instructing you how to run your life?
People get into credit trouble because they take ridiculous loans and buy things like new cars, houses, etc, instead of taking reasonable, more affordable options. That's kind of common sense.
School is for scholarly pursuits (ideally).
High school is, more or less, college prep. Having the know how to manage a stock portfolio when you're 16 is not going to help you for college, and you shouldn't have a stock portfolio when you're that young.
Bad schools are bad all-around, so if you get poor instruction in history and mathematics, you'd likely get poor instruction in financial matters.
Better to learn from someone in the real world who's done it right.
High school teachers usually don't have much real world experience. 4 years of an easy education degree, some student teaching, and bam.
People get into credit trouble because they take ridiculous loans and buy things like new cars, houses, etc, instead of taking reasonable, more affordable options. That's kind of common sense.
School is for scholarly pursuits (ideally).
High school is, more or less, college prep. Having the know how to manage a stock portfolio when you're 16 is not going to help you for college, and you shouldn't have a stock portfolio when you're that young.
Bad schools are bad all-around, so if you get poor instruction in history and mathematics, you'd likely get poor instruction in financial matters.
Better to learn from someone in the real world who's done it right.
High school teachers usually don't have much real world experience. 4 years of an easy education degree, some student teaching, and bam.
Do you really want the government instructing you how to run your life?
People get into credit trouble because they take ridiculous loans and buy things like new cars, houses, etc, instead of taking reasonable, more affordable options. That's kind of common sense.
School is for scholarly pursuits (ideally).
High school is, more or less, college prep. Having the know how to manage a stock portfolio when you're 16 is not going to help you for college, and you shouldn't have a stock portfolio when you're that young.
Bad schools are bad all-around, so if you get poor instruction in history and mathematics, you'd likely get poor instruction in financial matters.
Better to learn from someone in the real world who's done it right.
High school teachers usually don't have much real world experience. 4 years of an easy education degree, some student teaching, and bam.
There are also people that don't understand that misuse of credit cards is IDENTICAL to RENTING MONEY because nobody ever taught them that. People that called their senators to veto the bailout bill because nobody TAUGHT them how the economey worked and they thought they were just putting money into the pockets of bank CEOs... People get loans from car dealerships instead of bank loans because nobody taught them how interest works, they just saw "299 a month" and knew they could afford it. Who cares how many months? If the government takes the time to teach people these things while they have them captive (by law) maybe people won't make such stupid decisions in life.
Once again, these are EXAMPLES, not specific things i want taught in school... Just things that are infinitely more useful to me in life than knowing why King Whatshisface the third was killed.
Also: @ not needing to know these things when you're only 16... If there was mandatory school until 21, I'd say teach it then. I'm just saying it should be taught AT SOME POINT.
And one last thing (i'm so structued. :rollseyes: ): I'm not saying I want the govt. to teach me how to run my life, I'm saying I want an education that will help me in the real world, not just prepare me for college. I understand the basis of learning how to learn, but why can't I be taught things IMPORTANT while they do that?
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Life skills are better learned in life.
I'm a fan of smaller government...
My learning philosophy: You should learn things, not be taught things.
If people want to learn, they'll find a way to learn (and there is a way to learn). If they don't want to learn, they won't learn, even if you shove an economics textbook covered in sulfuric acid and flaming napalm down their throat.
I'm a fan of smaller government...
My learning philosophy: You should learn things, not be taught things.
If people want to learn, they'll find a way to learn (and there is a way to learn). If they don't want to learn, they won't learn, even if you shove an economics textbook covered in sulfuric acid and flaming napalm down their throat.
This has nothing to do with government. It has to do with teaching different, more important things. Yes, it's true that if you don't want to learn you won't. Same can be said for learning how to conjugate the imperfect tense of Ser (spanish). The point is that we should be learning DIFFERENT things. Give me the choice to learn things that will benefit me later in life! Some people are just ignorant and don't know about it. They would love to go learn about it, but they don't know it exists, so they won't! So tell them about it. I'm not saying we should go to school till we're 30, be told exactly how to handle our money, and pay 3x as much for school... I'm saying instead of 8 History classes through middle school and high school, one or two (or more) should be ecenomics and one should be modern politics and MODERN world studies. ONLY. I don't mean the last 30 years... I mean headlines TODAY. Every day. Maybe ecenomic classes can be incorporated into higher level math classes? Maybe instead of 4 years of Spanish I get 3 years of Spanish and a year of business management.
I'm not looking to overhaul the entire school system of the USA. I'm just saying incorporating some different kinds of classes would benefit the students in today's ignorant world.
i cant afford public school, god help me
With the grammar you used in your first post Skin, you deserve to be failing English
You can't learn trigonometry if you do not learn basica multiplication tables.
Ever hear of "you can't run before you walk"?
The first bill teaches you that you are renting money.
Also my high school taught econ classes.
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