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The document discusses whether schools should teach students how to survive financially. While some believe schools should focus on developing well-informed individuals, others argue schools should also impart practical life skills. Teaching financial literacy could better prepare students for adulthood, but making such a large change to the education system would be difficult and costly.

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Give Reasons For Your Answer and Include Any Relevant Examples From Your Knowledge or Experience. You Should Write at Least 250 Words

The document discusses whether schools should teach students how to survive financially. While some believe schools should focus on developing well-informed individuals, others argue schools should also impart practical life skills. Teaching financial literacy could better prepare students for adulthood, but making such a large change to the education system would be difficult and costly.

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Today’s schools should teach their students how to survive financially in the

world today. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your knowledge
or experience.

You should write at least 250 words.

Answer

In schools, students learn to analyse literature, calculate using trigonometry and


understand how photosynthesis works, but often students are inexperienced and
helpless after graduation when encountering the real world. It is therefore argued that
schools should teach their students how to survive financially in the world.

This topic is difficult though. Many educators believe that a school is supposed to teach
students in subjects that they will most probably not encounter again post-graduation,
so that teachers can develop open-minded and well-informed individuals. At the same
time, it can be argued that schools should impart skills that would be applicable in
everyday life. Mathematics, for example, is supposed to not only communicate actual
mathematics skills, but also teach logic to students. However, schools are supposed to
prepare the youths for their lives following high school. Currently this goal is not fully
met, as often students are unable to handle their finances sensibly and therefore can
often face significant problems. Schools that teach students how to survive financially
could change this.

This significant shift in the ideology of education is unlikely to take place soon, as the
education system has been in place for too long to be easily changed. Also a change of
this scale would be costly, as teachers would have to be trained and a syllabus for this
potential subject would have to be created. However, in some countries, for example
Germany, a community subject is available in which politics and finances are discussed.
This leaves students from Germany in a better situation to deal with finances in their
lives.

In conclusion, training school students in financial matters would be very useful. Adding
new content to the syllabus would require a significant amount of money, but the entire
community would benefit from students being better prepared for adult life.

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