Children should have lessons about spending and saving money at school?

Subject: Children should have lessons about spending  and saving money at school?

Dear Colleagues,

I have followed your discussion about the topic and I’d like giving my opinion.

We all agree that there are a number of basic pillars for our daily life, which is necessary to teach since time zero for a person’s full development; I’m speaking about reading, writing, social habits, etc. In the same way, we all agree that money is a fundamental variable in our society because it conditions the most phases of our life: we need money to buy food, to pay for our home, to get the things we like.

In fact, in the business world, money is the Boss and ‘Mrs Accountancy’ and ‘Mr Budget’ are his prophets. Nobody can conceive a company without a balanced assessment and a control mechanism for income and expenses.

However, in the domestic sphere, in my opinion, many times people go blindly along their financial way. People like their money but don’t apply any type of useful control because they were not taught any economic principles.

So I think that a domestic accounting would ease the stress produced by the sensation of not knowing if you have enough money or not. It would be a great idea to introduce in primary education habits for rationalisation and control of everyday problems related to spending  and saving money. Children need to know how much the things they like cost.

Have a nice day.



[Composition #5, 2nd Level]