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Why school didn't teach you about money | Answer In Progress
Submitted 11 months ago by ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to videos@lemmy.world
https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=CA3_urdUAoQ
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LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 11 months ago
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Ehhh, that’s a little too conspiratorial for me. While I agree they aren’t going to teach you how badly you’re going to be fucked as an adult, nor encourage true critical thinking, I think for things like financial literacy it’s more due to the school system being under funded.
Personally, I’m not a fan of the current public education system at all, and would like to see it restructered from the ground up along the lines of Ferrer schools.
Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I disagree with under funded,
all students need is 1 course on the matter,
1 teacher a few hours a week,
which is not crazy expensive.
xkforce@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The reality is that it isn’t feasible for school to teach you (hand hold) everything you will need to know throughout your life.You WILL need to learn many things on your own or apply what you already to to situations that were not covered in class. The problem is that most people aren’t really given the intellectual tools that are needed to learn those things or how to apply what they know to novel situations. i.e how you would go about learning outside of a highly structured environment, how you would apply what you know to new situations that your current knowledge should be sufficient to handle.
Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Sure you can’t prepare students for everything life will throw at them.
They don’t even teach basic economics, like what is deficit spending, what is fractional banking, and how it lead to hyper inflation every time throughout the history of humanity.
That’s what I call keeping people intentionally dumb about the topic.
xkforce@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I am a tutor that works with highschool and college students. Students struggle with more basic concepts and you want them to learn basic econ on top of it? You can’t do that unless more fundamental concepts are taught first. Education is based on layers of understanding that depend on each other. If the foundation is shoddy, everything that relies on it will be as well.