A speaker (Ndubuisi 'Andy' Egwim) argues that financial education should begin early in life because many people lack exposure to concepts like saving, investing, stocks, and shares unless they encounter them through family or social networks. The speaker notes reliance on social media for discovery and expresses a wish to incorporate practical financial education for young people rather than waiting until mid-adulthood.
And I can't stress how important it is to be knowledgeable about financial things or like knowing how to save or knowing how to invest at a very early age. Because I think one of the problems or the shortcomings or the disadvantage should I say I had or quite a number of people had. Because nobody really tells you about investment, Nobody tells you about stocks, shares. You're only fortunate if you have people around you. It's just like they say, like most of the things you learn comes from people around you. Because if nobody around you is talking about stocks or savings, like, how are you going to know really? Because I literally just bumped into that stuff on, on social media. That's because I use social media because there's some people who don't use social media and it also depends on like the people you're following. Yeah. So if I didn't, like, I didn't know about it. And I think that's one of the things that really like quite a number of people are actually physical because if you don't know about it, then you don't know about it. Around you don't know, then you don't know about it really. So I wish there was a way to like incorporate like financial education or financial education, like real life financial education into teach people whilst they are young and upcoming and not really wait till like your mid-30s or mid-40s before you start.
