> As someone who didn't learn the very basics of personal finance at the optimal point in life, I feel like it should be part of our standardized education. It

> As someone who didn't learn the very basics of personal finance at the optimal point in life, I feel like it should be part of our standardized education. It's not limited to personal finance, although that's part of it). Our education system does a terrible job of teaching folks about what makes our society tick (social sciences are essentially ignored) and how people should strive to act in order to best cope with it (basically, adopt middle-class values to the best of your ability. Don't eat that marshmallow!), while wasting untold amounts of time and effort on ridiculous bells-and-whistles that nobody will ever have any use or even appreciation for (like, what did author X really mean when they used that particular simile at page <n> of work Y?) Keep it simple, FFS!