I was thinking Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith or Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell but those may be a bit advanced
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I was thinking Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith or Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell but those may be a bit advanced
I wouldn't recommend books necessarily, as for children they might be a bit difficult to digest. Some kids just aren't interested in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mII9NZ8MMVM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyV0OfU3-FU&t=83s
Yes, that would be my first clarification question: do they even like to read, or has government schools made that so painful they hate it?
One of the things that really hit me when I left school was that I actually enjoy reading and maths. However the government mandated versions of it made it so fucking boring and pointless not applying to real life that I could not get into it and as a result my grades suffered badly.
I got hooked on reading early, the grade school library had Tom Swift and The Hardy Boys books, and I devoured them all. By high school I was reading those thick Tom Clancy books that are 900 plus pages. I read so much I developed a speed reading habit, and now had hundreds of books of my own, three entire floor to ceiling book cases of hardbacks alone.
Yep, I was into reading fantasy books when I was younger and I also read a bit of Tom Clancy, it's not kids that are the problem it's schools, but you'll never see parents or teachers admit to it in a public setting.