Dogmas can and indeed should themselves become part of the curriculum – not just at schools but at universities, too. Yet while appreciating that economic education warrants a higher status in schools, we should not forget one thing. Economics is a highly complex topic – as I’m sure you will agree.
Just as biology lessons do not produce fully trained biologists or maths classes mathematicians, so, too, will economics lessons not serve up economists. School-level education is no substitute for the study of economics. But what it certainly can do is prepare students for it.