Are you writing this up as a follow up to @hasherstacker's post #689349 today. The views in both the posts are quite similar.

Nothing from schools. We don't get any in india from schools. However I got about logistics in inheritance from my family.

I had very little formal economic education as a kid, but my father really was a master teacher. He instinctively knew all this stuff we talk about without knowing what it was called. He had absolutely no trust and faith in the government. His parents grew up poor in southern Italy. They traded that life for poverty in the U. S. during the depression. My father somehow knew all about debt based fiat instinctively. While my other friend's parents fought to remain debt free, he borrowed money to acquire hard assets. Then he watched the government inflate those assets over the years. He wouldn't use a personal checkbook. Everything was cash. I was the only kid I knew who paid for a private Catholic education in cash.

I don't think you can ever trust the government to educate your kids in this area.

My older brother told me the difference between keynesian and austrian economics when I was still in elementary school. But, I did not find out why one cannot save in fiat until many years later.

Growing up I didn't get any formal financial education, but some of the things I learned from my parents:

I was born in 1971, yeah the fatidic year when the dollar was de-pegged from gold. My first 20 years of life I lived in pure communist regime. Almost everything was scarce, even the bread.

My family wasn't really poor, just a normal middle class earning, workers.

What did they said to me, especially my grandpa, was to save money anytime I can. And spend them wisely only on things that I really need. Think twice when is about to buy something, no matter how much desire I have for that thing. And also they always said: never trust the gov and the banks.

Maybe that's why I appreciate and understand so much Bitcoin. Because is damn scarce.

I don't think there's anything like that in schools.

Definitely I didn't get any information about how investments work, etc.

Looking at my friends from school it is so obvious what happened:

That's basically what happens. Rich families pass this information to their kids, and working class families teach their kids that they should work hard.

It's basically the main premise of the 1997 book Rich Dad, Poor Dad, from Robert Kiyosaki.

It makes sense really, because you need way more workers than entrepreneurs/business owners.

But I think with AI we will start to see more 1 man companies since you can use AI as your tech employees, but that's a topic for another time.

My mum took me to open a structured deposit when I was 17. She distinctly told me that money will only multiply when we put it to work.

She would have loved the idea of Bitcoin!

I didn’t get any financial help growing up as a kid I had to figure out most of this stuff on my own

Nothing about investing, protecting your purchasing power, money creation and inflation etc during any schooling I've been exposed to. My real education on that front started around 2012 when I watched the zeitgeist film or films. Before that time I don't think I ever seriously thought about the money we use, how it gets created, whether anybody controls it, the architecture of the system, other ways to do it etc. I think there's some serious flaws, misconceptions and misguided or erroneuous lines of argument in that film series but I think it played an important role in getting the ball rolling or setting people down some fruitful rabbit holes. It would be quite a few years later before I delved into the so-called austrian-school perspectives on this. Mises "Economic Calculation int he Socialist Commonwealth" helped me quite a bit in understanding prices, processes of price formation and the relation to free markets and the notion of economic calculation. I often recommend that piece together with Mises' "Bureaucracy" and Bastiat's "The Law".

After reviewing my bio, I could tell you that I knew nothing until I studied bitcoin.

I learned that if you took a dollar food stamp to circle k and purchased a 3 cent bazooka gum, you could get 97 cents in usd change back. Do it at a few different stores and then your dad can get a pack of cigarettes. Life hack. Don't think it works like that anymore.

I have very similar feeling and experiences. I am from Slovakia and we are post communistic country, well it was change 30 years ago but some poeple has still socialistic mindset.

yes, time to time I am discussing money and bitcoin with children ;-)

Not much financial education from parents or teachers.

In my case, I learned because I grow up in a hiper inflation country and my parents were not the most smart people with money.

My dad has a very short term mentality, why save money 💰, it's better to spend it today...the items will be more expensive tomorrow...but never invest.

Legally I never received a financial education, nobody taught you what money is, what saving is, and my parents only taught me how to earn money, spend it, they only told me to study and work to have a better future but nothing about what fiduciary money is, nothing about knowing if inflation exists. I began to wake up to the fallacy of fiduciary money when I realized that the money I earned was water and salt because my country Venezuela fell into a crisis (in which it is still) sunk in a terrible economic model which has destroyed its entire economy.

In our school a bank assistant explained why banks gives you interest when you deposit and hold money in the bank: they use your monis for investment, more precisely as a someone else's credit. Nobody raised an eyebrow. But hey free 2.5 buccs for opening an account with a voucher!

Also he gave some fuzzy example in ancient time, when monis were stored in temples people payed for the protection. But people didn't like to pay, and safeguards didn't like that monis were staying without a purpose. So in exchange for some interest, safeguards could invest a fraction of monis into something else while they're in account. Did fractional reserve exist in ancient time? Could someone explain please?

That's all my school's financial education, besides some math problems.

None. We were super broke. We lived disability check to disability check. Often with the electricity and/or water turned off. It was interesting. My father was a passionate artist with no sense. No stability in that way.

Education is obsolete in the information age. There is only learning and indoctrination now.

State schools in US are funded by property tax. Even if you have no kids, or your kids go to a private school, or your kids go to a state-school in another district, you still have to give your property tax dollars to the state school in your property's district.

Imagine if educators on YouTube got paid regardless if their videos got 10 views or 10M views. What would the quality of content on YouTube trend towards? Now imagine that YouTube was operated by the same institution that controls the money in society. There would probably be a lot of propaganda videos and not many videos which teach alternative money systems.

There's almost no learning to be had in state-run education centers, its 80% indoctrination.

Not much other than "do not spend more than you make and/or have"

I am 35 years old. I didn't get any serious financial education growing up, until 2017 when I got hit so hard by price inflation. That was when I started educating myself on finance and money, and bitcoin came along.