What’s something you believe everyone should know.

There are many things that people need to know. That is particularly true for the younger generation who are growing up.

Those of us who are older could also benefit from sitting and developing a personal “need too know“ list. So much passes us by these days, particularly in a world where knowledge is doubling every few years. The volume of information that is “ out there“, is beyond imagination. It is easy to become overwhelmed by the mass of information available. Metaphorically, there is so much known about the modern world, that we could easily be buried under the avalanche. These days, “information overload” is the phenomena grasping us by ournmetaphorical necks and threatening to choke us.

In this context, selectivity is important. It’s a case of “needing to know“ What we “need to know.”

As a retired educator the thing I’m most worry about for young people being born and then coming into our education system within the next few years is the fact that they may well be educated without understanding the value and the concept of currency. One of the things that was always important to me was that children had the chance to use money and to understand it as concrete substance of value.

It seems that concrete currency is on the way out and that everything is going to be online and therefore monetary values and money itself will become figurative rather than literal.

To me that is the real worry. For children and people to have no inkling of currency other than to refer to it in an online context, will mean that understanding money and its value will deteriorate.

If young people grow up not understanding money, there’s a fair chance that they will very quickly fall into the situation of being in debt, possibly far more deeply than is currently the experience of this generation.

Concrete learning and understanding is ever so important, particularly in the field of monetary understanding.

I hope that Education systems are able to guard against this outcome, but I am not holding my breath.