Although I am not an expert or practitioner in the field of education, I've come to the conclusion we need to upgrade our K-12 curriculum to educate our children for future challenges.
In my opinion, our current curriculum was designed to prepare children for the transition from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy. It focuses on developing abilities to read, write and use math. This was great training to prepare people for work in manufacturing, i.e. the industrial economy.
As the world moves towards a knowledge economy, reading, writing and math will continue to be important, but not sufficient, skills to have. Here are two important capabilities I believe need to be included for our children to be competitive in the future economy:
Unfortunately, I don't think changes like these will be made by the time our daughter enters kindergarten. Therefore, as parents, we will likely carry the responsibility to teach these concepts.
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2 comments:
I absolutely agree about extending personal finance education into the K-12 arena. One of the problems will be finding qualified teachers of this subject who are not themselves ingrained in the consumer credit culture.
When I graduated from school, I was woefully unprepared to manage my own finances ... even though my degree was in business!
We were trained to get a job in a large organization ... how times have changed!
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