and that the investment would far outweigh the effects as education would be unable to counteract the non-rational determinants of the financial world and its behavior. However, recent studies by two organizations that help provide financial literacy curriculum: EverFi along with Higher One, have shown that financial literacy education being taught in high school continues to positively influence student’s relationship with money and money management well after they graduate. The study was conducted on 65,000 students. The study showed that “students who took a class did better on the survey’s financial knowledge questions, were found to be more averse to debt, more likely to pay credit card bills on time, and less likely to go over their credit limit” (Malcolm, “Financial Literacy Education Has Lasting Impact”). Essentially, providing students with the know how on properly dealing with their finances in school better prepared them for real world finances and helped them to make responsible decisions that were made even more evident when compared to the decisions of their peers who had not taken the…