Children do not learn economics in classrooms first.
They learn it in traffic.
They learn it when they watch their parents leave home before sunrise and return after dark. They learn it when they hear conversations about rising prices, unstable policies, and the need to “know someone” to get things done. They learn it in whispered calls about delayed salaries, in negotiations with landlords, in the quiet recalculation of school fees.
Before they understand inflation, they understand anxiety.
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