Financial education reaches schools

From now on, children will learn financial education at school thanks to a program that lasts four weeks. These classes on finance will be taught by 400 volunteers, which are employees or early retirees of the banks themselves, and will reach some5,000 students from more than 100 schools of our country.

This program called Your finances, your future, has the collaboration of the Junior Achievement Foundation, one of the largest non-profit educational organizations in the world.

The objective of teaching financial education at school

Its objective: to train schoolchildren through educational plans to foster entrepreneurial spirit in them. The initiative of this financial program aimed at schoolchildren has started from the European Banking Federation, and is located in the context of the European Money Week, the AEB (Spanish Association of Banking), which combines the efforts of banks to promote education financial in Spain.

Precisely, the Spanish Association of Banking (AEB), very concerned about the financial education of our children, has not hesitated to offer schools information sessions for students where the CEOs of the main Spanish banks are going to teach schoolchildren about money and savings.

Financial lessons to learn

The program has a clear intention of the future, since it arises as a complement to the subject of "Financial Economics" that begins to be taught already in schools to the detriment of others, such as philosophy or music. The agenda of these classes includes lessons to save and reach the end of the month, the importance of credit, the possible consequences of making irresponsible use or how to adapt consumption to personal circumstances.

In practice, these are individual lessons, that is, for oneself in terms of savings, family budgets, planning, credit, credit cards ... Adapting consumption to personal circumstances is one of the greatest lessons for children in The school can learn from the CEOs of the banks.

Marisol Nuevo Espín