# What are the most assigned books in college and high school courses?

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> [@Desert\_Nomad](#):
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> What would have been FAR, FAR better for everyone is in lieu of most of this, a course on basic finance, economy, money management, investing (how markets work etc). There is no course like this in high school, but there needs to be.

We called it “Independent Living” at my high school and it was an elective. You learned things like how to balance a checkbook, how to rent an apartment, how to budget a weekly menu, etc., etc. I took it as a blow off elective my senior year and was surprised by how useful it actually was.

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