[mellosouls]

How is knowledge of the markets utterly irrelevant to most people's lives?

Misquote. "knowledge of the complexities of the financial markets...". Again, I've acknowledged the importance of basic financial education; deeper compulsory coverage would just displace other more useful subjects.

Another place that the education system is totally worthless is healthcare. Do the schools teach us to contact our insurance companies for interaction Id numbers to see if a provider is in network...[clipped]

I wouldn't know as I live in a different country, but perhaps at least in this instance the problem is not your education system but your healthcare...