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Some people think
that all high school students do not have to learn basic economics. One of the
reasons they suggested is that economics is too difficult for high school
students to learn. However, I disagree with them for the following two reasons.
First, economics is helpful to earn money. Also, high school students can understand
the mechanisms of the world through economics.
First of all,
economics can improve overall wellbeing of people including high school students.
To explain, money sometimes is considered as one’s power in this materialistic
society. Person who does not have money is simply ignored. As a result, there
is no place to stand in this society for a poor person. Also, we cannot deny
the fact that other pleasures of life can be driven from having enough money to
spare. For example, if you have some economic knowledge, you have more chance
to make money from investing stocks. This is because stock prices are affected
by situations of foreign countries. Therefore, understanding the mechanism of
stock market which is described in economics can help you earn money. For this
reason, I strongly argue that high school students should learn basic economics.
On top of that,
from having economic knowledge high school students can understand the
relevance of the events that occurs in their life. To be specific, several
factors can cause just one event such as a wage increase. Therefore, cultural,
political, economic and other sectors are joined to understand just one event. For
example, it would not be possible for people who do not have economic knowledge
to understand the relevance of the political state of foreign countries and
exchange rate. This is because people have no idea how to calculate exchange
rate or how trades influence exchange rate. From this fact, I think high schools
have to provide economics class for students.
To sum up, economics
is helpful for high school students because it is strongly related to earning
money which directly improve their standard of living. Moreover, high school
students can grasp the mechanisms that lies in the world. In this regard, I firmly
hold that high school students should learn basic economics.
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