Personal finance is a subject that very few people, especially in the United States, take to heart and spend any conceivable time on. It is often a subject that is readily ignored within high school, and is not well defined during college studies unless students are specifically interested in paying tuition costs and freely deciding to choose it as either a personal skills development task or as an elective for mathematics. This is a sad concept, especially when considering the importance of developing such skills that can be utilized in real world life events.

 

The importance of personal finance lies in the ability for an adult to take care of themselves and have security in their ability to save and invest funds that can be useful to them in the future. An uneducated individual may not understand the overall importance in placing money into investments such as stocks, bonds or, the most important investment of all, retirement. The money that can be placed within these programs can be the difference between whether or not an individual succeeds or fails later on in life and should not be ignored, but rather, embraced as a valuable life skill and lesson.

 

More attention would be placed on offering personal finance classes to students at an early age in order to better prepare them for life after school has ended. Course topics could be on how to open checking and savings accounts, how to correctly write a check, the importance of paying bills on time and what it means to save money for the future instead of simply spending everything you earn.

 

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