Comments on: Why is Learning Personal Finance Important?

By: Darren

Darren — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:16:25 +0000

I’m a bit late in replying, but I think learning personal finance is important because we deal with it one way or another almost everday of our lives. It could be little things like setting up a budget before buying groceries, or bigger things like determining how to invest your money, but they’re all related in some way.

Without some knowledge of at least of basics of how money works, I think we’d all complain about not having enough, and have all sorts of money problems.
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By: FinEngr

FinEngr — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:09:49 +0000

Its amazing. We’re all little links – how do we make the chain?

It seems like teaching PF in schools is an on-going debate. Are there credit card lobbyists stonewalling it from actually happening?

Paragraph worth re-reading: “Without learning personal finance, you’re going to lead a completely different life…”
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By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:52:04 +0000

Yup, just trying to make it as clear as possible why personal finance isn’t just some boring topic that only nerdy people learn. There’s a lot of power behind it.
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By: Financial Samurai

Financial Samurai — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:46:10 +0000

Good point. Better to know this stuff now before our lives our half older. Thank goodness for the internet and the ease of information transformation!
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By: Tracy

Tracy — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:52:54 +0000

I wish I was as far ahead of the game as you are when I was your age. Thank goodness it’s never too late. Money doesn’t buy happiness, but it can make a huge difference in your options and that definitely spells freedom.
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By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:26:57 +0000

I think some schools have financial literacy programs, but most don’t. I agree, and believe there should be more of a push to get this established in every school. I don’t see any downside, however, money seems like such a taboo and many of the administrators and leaders of the schools probably aren’t receptive to change when they don’t even understand the importance of the idea themselves… Maybe we should start a PF blogger lobby group to change this???

By: Investing Newbie

Investing Newbie — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:17:09 +0000

I was just thinking about this recently – there needs to be an initiative in our education system where we teach personal finance. I personally think having a basic PF class in lieu of an English/Math core class at colleges would be more practical and beneficial.
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By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:50:28 +0000

Great post. I read yesterday that someone said ‘ignorance is bliss.’ This is so NOT TRUE when it comes to money. The more you know and act on what you know the better off you will be.
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