Martin Lewis funds personal finance textbook for schools

[A Quiet Monkfish]

Exactly, the state gave me a great education back in the 60s and 70s with text books provided for you, free school milk, great sporting facilities with teachers who'd give up their time to run teams on a Saturday morning or after school and, free university tuition if you wanted it - I feel pretty guilty that I, largely, blew it all!

All of that is gone now and we are left to rely on the generosity of people like Martin Lewis - Cameron called getting other people to do what his Government should have done, the Big Society!

Yet it's not the responsibility of Martin Lewis or the Government to explain how to prepare for the financial decisions of life, is it. When I was young you had a telephone directory and the tel. number of a Bank or a Building Society - you had to find out for yourself or ask a parent....

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Yet it's not the responsibility of Martin Lewis or the Government to explain how to prepare for the financial decisions of life, is it. When I was young you had a telephone directory and the tel. number of a Bank or a Building Society - you had to find out for yourself or ask a parent....

The problem is today a bank tries to sell you products rather than give you financial advice, and with regards to asking a parent, then you end up stuck at the level your parents intelligence ends.

Personally i think school is a good place to teach people personal skills, and a basic understanding of personal finance would not be a bad skill to come out of school with. There are many a person from my generation struggling with mistakes they made with credit when they were young, and it affects them greatly when they then try to settle down.