Comments on: Should We Teach Personal Finance in High School? http://www.fiscalfizzle.com/2009/02/should-personal-finance-be-taught-in-school/ Spicy Thoughts on Personal Finance Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:33:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: the weakonomisthttp://www.fiscalfizzle.com/2009/02/should-personal-finance-be-taught-in-school/#comment-27 the weakonomist Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:39:22 +0000 http://www.fiscalfizzle.com/?p=182#comment-27 This is like saying science is bad because it makes people think they can fly. Well some people are going to be dumb enough to think that, and they will learn the hard way they can't. If it isn't working, then they aren't teaching it right. Being the child of a teacher this is hard to say: many teachers won't follow their own lessons so the students won't either. I'm a big advocate for teaching PF in schools. This is like saying science is bad because it makes people think they can fly. Well some people are going to be dumb enough to think that, and they will learn the hard way they can’t.

If it isn’t working, then they aren’t teaching it right. Being the child of a teacher this is hard to say: many teachers won’t follow their own lessons so the students won’t either.

I’m a big advocate for teaching PF in schools.

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