Jul 15 2010
School’s not enough
I guess it started when I read that novel online. The one about the kid with dyslexia working his way through life. And he said, “There’s so much that school doesn’t teach us!”
It’s true you know. School is supposed to teach us to learn. Unfortunately, it doesn’t even do that very well. But there’s more to learn in life.
There’s academic literacy, which school can teach. But then there’s spiritual literacy that you often have to find at home. There’s communications ability that you need to have as well. But then, there’s one that most people don’t ever even try to look for which is financial literacy.
How surprised was I to hear that, “You can be broke and still be rich. Broke is temporary. Poor is eternal.”
It doesn’t completely make sense because the person here uses the words rich and poor with a slightly different meaning than what we’re used to. But it basically means that to be truly rich, you need to have the skill and motivation to change your financial ability to become better.
Schools need to start teaching financial literacy.
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