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I wasn’t planning on having enough material to do another Financial Literacy Update just one week after the first one, but I received an email last week that I really wanted to bring to your attention. Before I get to that, here are a couple of articles on financial literacy issues that you might want to check out: Jim Yih presents a guest post entitled What [...] Continue reading Financial Literacy Update #2 The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think – rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. ~ Bill Beattie Update #1: This post was included in the Carnival of Money Stories 2: Disaster Issue posted at True Adventures in Money Hacking. [...] Continue reading Financial Literacy Is Like Green Eggs and Ham Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith Update: This post is featured in the Carnival of Personal Finance – Women in History Edition posted at Simply Forties. Thanks! I mentioned at the end of my last post that I often struggle with the knowledge-action gap. I [...] Continue reading 5 Financial Toxins and Antidotes Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~ Proverb On February 22, the Task Force on Financial Literacy released a public consultation document called Leveraging Excellence. The task force was established by the Canadian Minister of Finance in 2009 to examine ways to boost the financial literacy of Canadians. I thought that the title of the report was [...] Continue reading Task Force on Financial Literacy: Gold Medal |
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