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Personal finance lessons schools will never teach you about money
The reason I started creating and blogging on Medium in the first place was because of a lack of financial education in our school systems, in addition to other topics such as freedom and we(a)l(th)lness.
Our school systems teach us many subjects such as science, math, accounting, geography, history, the arts, and languages. But, it teaches us absolutely nothing about money.
As a child, you probably learned about money mostly from interacting with your family members and friends. You modeled their financial behaviors. At least that was certainly the case for me growing up. Do you remember one of your first ever money memories?
Many of us are thrown into the world as adults with no financial literacy to speak of. We are free to do whatever we want with our money if, in fact, we have any of it. Heck, we are even free to do whatever we want with money we do not have: debt. Ultimately, we are left to our devices to “figure it out”. Is that really the best option though?
I won’t speak for the whole general population, but in my family and social circles, money is usually a very private topic. It’s only discussed on a superficial level in my opinion. Conversations about money with my friends and acquaintances do not get beyond how expensive the next iPhone 10 is…
