The book's constant attempts to compare learning about personal finance to learning how to be a soldier lose their charm after a while.
At EverFi, we have found that students are successful when they learn about personal finance in a digital learning environment that is both compelling and entertaining, personalized for the individual, and allows them to move at their own pace.
During my time writing about credit and personal finance, I've learned a lot.
This story originally appeared on LearnVest as "The Costly Mistake I Made When I First Opened My Retirement Account — And How I Fixed It". The author, pictured, spent many hours reading personal finance sites to learn what it meant to invest for retirement.
A host of free online personal finance courses mean that learning to save responsibly is only a mouse click away.
And once the U.S. Department of Education links loans to college efforts to teach personal finance, we should measure learning effectiveness by observing its impact of loan default rates, credit scores, bankruptcy rates and other behavioral measurements.
As such, personal finance is something most learn by trial and error.
But here's the thing about personal finance that I've learned working both with people who have money and with those who don't.
You can also give them a book on personal finance to help them learn the basics.
Should West fail to snag a billionaire benefactor, he can always scrape together a few bucks for a Jean Chatzky book on personal finance or something and learn to live more within his means, as we all must.
We wanted learn how everything will change — or not: living, learning, work, personal finance, health and now caregiving.
