In the 1980s, my dad was the head of the finance department at a small college. He taught finance classes, and he taught how free markets worked. Student after student would come to him, and say this amazed them. They said they had never heard of a case for free markets.

I attribute this to the complete lack of any school teachers or professors having any business experience whatsoever.

None of my K-12 grade school classes said anything about free markets. None offered any accounting instruction, or finance instruction, or anything about managing money.

It's a sad state of affairs.