John MacDonald: Financial literacy classes better late than never

I remember when I was a kid at school and thinking that some of the stuff we were being made to do was such a waste of time.

You know what I’m talking about. “Why on earth are you making us do this? This is not going to be any use to me when I get out of this place - so why are we bothering with it?”

Which, a lot of the time, was probably youthful arrogance as much as anything. Although, the old trigonometry doesn’t get used much these days. Not a lot of polygon action, either.