WHY NOT BASIC ECONOMICS IN THE CORE? (Re-posted from elsewhere) You know, math a

WHY NOT BASIC ECONOMICS IN THE CORE?

(Re-posted from elsewhere)

You know, math and economics can be taught as very simple stories. As narratives. Why you can get out of school reading Chaucer, but not knowing how to balance a checkbook, the power of compound interest, the basic currency system, and simple macro economics, is just …. completely beyond me. It’s like, they want us to be ignorant. (And no. I don’t mean that. I’m not a conspiracy nut. I just think it’s ideological not practical.) This stuff isn’t magic. The narrative doesn’t even require algebra. You can draw it as pictures without numbers. We’re all slaves to this system and all but a few of us are ignorant of it.

It’s freaking criminal.