Most adults who handle money badly were never taught the habits underneath it — how to want, how to wait, how to decide, how to tell when something is wrong. Those habits form long before anyone opens a bank account.
We are starting at the beginning, with Indian children aged six to fourteen.
Nobody in India has measured it. Not the schools, not the boards. So we are building the measure, and it starts with a few hundred families sitting down with their children for fifteen minutes.
You get their answers, and a report the same evening.
Rushabh Jamdade is a Chartered Accountant in Pune, with experience at PwC and Thermo Fisher Scientific, and teaches as visiting faculty at SIBM Pune and MIT World Peace University.
This began as a curriculum written for classrooms. It is starting instead at kitchen tables, because that is where money is actually learned.