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 It's no news of the widespread reach of Bitcoin and how the knowledge of it is slowly creeping into the nooks and crannies of the world. Leaders around the world are calling for the inclusion of Bitcoin study into the curricula of students and the ruler of Serbia is no different.
 
Speaking at a conference on Thursday at the casino de Barritz to a coin telegraph personnel, Prince Filip of Serbia gave his two cents on his opinion of Bitcoin.

The 40 year old business man is unlike any other typical ruler you may know as he believes that Bitcoin is unlike any other subject and should be taught in schools as knowledge of the coin is quite important.
 Although not having the ability to making it a legal tender like El Salvador and Central African Republic did, he feels that it's a better form of "Sharia money' for any Muslim country.

 Serbia is another country that is Bitcoin friendly and although exchanges like Bitpanda, Bitstamp are used there, is there a way that more Bitcoin related hubs and villages can be built borrowing a leaf from El Salvador to help a better spread of it?
 https://cointelegraph.com/news/prince-philip-of-serbia-suggests-bringing-bitcoin-into-the-classroom

It says he is a BTC maximalist like his father. With someone with the knowledge and who can tell his citizen what to do, he would be making the adoption spread among his people. And starting it with the young people in the school will be a better idea to educate them on blockchain and BTC.

Serbia will not be the first to add blockchain and BTC to thier curriculum, there were already countries before them.

The man is pretty influential so I guess his voice means something to a lot of people in his country. Academic institutions who have heard of his opinion might consider looking into the possibility of integrating Bitcoin-related courses.

I agree with him that it is important for "the history of money" to be taught in schools. I suspect that more than 90% of a country's population don't know how money actually works. I cannot remember having an in-depth discussion in my university days of what money actually is or why it is basically founded on debt or whatever. I think everybody should be aware of it.

I think it's much better to teach fiat money in schools. Amazingly, barely anyone understands how the fiat money they work for is created. To quote Henry Ford:
If people would truely understand fiat money, they'd use Bitcoin!

I agree with you on that because frankly, knowledge of anything is easily grasped at a tender age and inclusion of Bitcoin into schools will help spread it's spread and then children and also teachers alike can understand how it works.
 

Right. Financial education as a whole is not taught enough in schools and many people are unaware how money works, besides earning and spending. Mandatory financial education will make people understand why they need alternative assets which hold value, such as Bitcoin. (Although Bitcoin does one better by functioning as a payment alternative).

The reality is not everyone would be interested in Bitcoin or keen to use it, it doesn't have to be imposed on kids, if they do not care for it. Financial education on the other hand is pivotal to everyone.

I completely agree with the idea of bitcoin education inclusion in schools because one of the biggest limitations of btc is a lack of knowledge and awareness, lots of folks are not into btc because they don't understand it, they feel it is a bit complicated to learn and understand. If btc is being thought in school at an early stage, it will somehow reduce that limitation and increase awareness about btc and its importance.

Bitcoin is a computer technology, if the students doesn't curious and interested with computer, then I will expect the teacher need to try harder in order to make the whole students interested and will pass the exam. I think a basic computer education like excel, word, powerpoint, and design are enough for average Joe. Bitcoin education is appropriate in University since they're more matured and have better understanding.

I'd say finance thought at schools from early on is even more important. I mean think about it this way, I never learned about finance when I was going to elementary school, but then I never learned about it in high school if I wasn't on that class schedule neither, meaning if I wanted to study something unrelated, like arts or whatever, then money was never a subject to me, which means never learned it in college as well if you studied Literature like me.

All in all, I spent 16 years in school and never once had any class regarding finances. If you do not teach kids about finance, then you won't have people who understand how they are getting screwed every single year by the taxes and the wealthy people who do not pay it, and the corrupt politicians who steal it.

That prince who is often mentioned on the forum has almost no influence in Serbia because that country is not a kingdom or anything similar. Therefore, it is not clear to me why so much attention is being paid to a prince who just wants some free PR at the expense of Bitcoin and nothing more than that?

Perhaps this quote by @Pmalek explains it best :


In addition, Serbia is one of the biggest supporters of Russia and has at its head a man who denies the most terrible crimes committed by his people (including him personally) in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. Does anyone think that Bitcoin will ever succeed in such a country where a big leader controls absolutely everything?

Those who can't get enough of princes and fairy tales about them -> Prince Philip of Serbia: "only way around inflation is Bitcoin" (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5390787.0)

I do not know what the man’s economic background is, and therefore the appropriate formulation for what I am saying, but we all agree that the lack of financial knowledge, starting with schools, is the cause of the economic suffering of many middle-class members, in addition to the runaway inflation.
Therefore, considering bitcoin as a model is considered a useful thing that is being studied and not as basic concepts such as the centralized economy or the non-printing of money randomly or government interference in the policies of the central bank.

That will be a very good idea implementing the study of Blockchain/Bitcoin into the education system to teach little ones exactly how the Blockchain technology actually works, because if you could observe, most of the course been studied today weren't in existence 30yrs ago, such as robotics, website development e.t.c, but people started to learn it when they saw that it was useful to the society and mankind, and now is the turn for cryptocurrency, of which building this potential into our kids will be the very best decision ever made. So that was an excellent move by the prince of Serbia

Due to the fact that I don't have much information about Serbia, I am not sure what he can do there. It's hard for me to tell if his actions in Serbia are really bold or if they are not. You have already pointed out that the most positive thing about him is the work he is doing at the moment as a 40-year-old businessman because helping people become educated about new technology, such as bitcoin, can be extremely helpful for the future of those individuals. As soon as the rest of the world hears about what he does for students, I'm sure he can gain more reputation for himself.

Prince Philip of Serbia, a financial analyst who understands how the world works. He has been a strong proponent of Bitcoin. As a matter of fact, some months ago I watched one of his interviews and I so much loved what he said about bitcoin. According to him (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvOq-ELG_XY), Bitcoin, it is only bitcoin is freedom. And this is something I want for everyone. And this is something that everyone has to learn and they will learn slowly. Some people will not want to learn it because they are not used to it. Because they want to protect the system that they do well in but they don't realize that that system or maybe they do, that that system is not advantageous to everyone else in the world. So billions of people around the world are not having a good time right now. Well we need to take the money away from the states. Sooner than later, we are going to have bitcoin being taught in schools in all levels.

Literally, the best way to get things done properly for Bitcoin's adoption is by introducing Bitcoin education into the school curriculum, at least starting from the secondary school level and into the higher institution, because people cannot adopt what they don't understand, It's only when people get Proper information about the stuff that's when we are going to see more mass adoption as never before, Therefore with this step, it will definitely help younger generation learn and starting to understand how Bitcoin works perfectly and the water flows down hills.

This will also lessen the doubt of people on how bitcoin operates. Many thinks it still a scam and some were just lucky being able to get profit from it. If it will be teach in schools students will have more ideas and probably they can use as sideline in having profit or atleast if they plan to invest early. It’s a good thing that high profile people appreciates what bitcoin can do. Even no enough knowledge in bitcoin can earn if they study hard so what more if it will be taught by knowledgeable professors to make their bitcoin/crypto journey less riskier and more worth it.

It seems that this guy has been openly pro-Bitcoin (https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3185378/meet-prince-philip-serbia-bitcoin-buff-american-born-son) before as well, believing that it promotes freedom by being censorship-free.
Given that he was born in the US, raised in the UK and moved to Serbia only a couple of years ago, though, I am not sure if his opinion is highly regarded in Serbia (might not be important at all, given the quote of Pmalek by Lucius in the thread). Still, it's always nice when people voice support of Bitcoin and believe that it should be a part of education.

As you said bitcoin is computer technology, while knowledge about information technology is introduced quite early from elementary school, so why wait until the children go to university to start teaching them? I think bitcoin should be included in the high school curriculum, then they already have enough basic knowledge of the technology and they can continue to explore a more advanced technology. I prefer bitcoin tutorials that will focus on technology rather than investment. Investment should be introduced after they start thinking about finance.

Doesn't mean that he knows what he is talking about, I think that the opinions of teachers or educators should be the opinions that would matter, unless Prince Filip is an educator himself then I have no qualms with what he's saying. To me, bitcoin is an advance topic and there should be some sort of foundation before getting into it to understand the lingo.

Completely agree with this, governments no need to teach about bitcoin and blockchain in schools, all they need to do is to teach about economics, money and finance then let the people to decide what is better for them.

Even in developed countries people lack financial knowledge which is why they trapped into this inflation lifestyle and never go for investment and they think its for only rich and high risk takers.

This is going to make a good difference in the lives of the young ones as they are going, the present generation look into building the future leaders of tomorrow from our children's active engagement in cryptocurrency and bitcoin to be precise, there are subjects that requires the expanding knowledge in financial economy and when taught well in school, it will help picture the real benefit and areas of application for it use as bitcoin remains a solution to the financial economy and a solution to global fiat currency challenges everywhere.

I don't think the kids will see the advantages of Bitcoin unless they are first taught how fiat currencies work, how fiat money comes into existence, what the Federal Reserve does and what it is (for those who live in the States), how printed paper money is debt, why money losses value long term, etc. You first present the problem, explain why it is a problem, and then you offer an alternative solution. In this case, Bitcoin. If the young minds don't see a problem, and they won't because financial education is not in the curriculum, they won't understand the issues that bitcoin is trying to fix.

El Salvador as a country has already legalized bitcoin, bitcoin is a Legal tender in El Salvador, so bitcoin projects, hubs or villages may work there without any problems, bitcoin hubs or villages may not be a total success in El Svador for example, but it can be tried out because the government would not oppose it or be against it as they have already legalized bitcoin from the top. The question now is how many countries have taken that step about bitcoin, just two, and there are also a few countries that are bitcoin friendly even without making it a legal tender. So building what you mentioned will be difficult in most countries because it needs the approval of the government, and since many of them don't like bitcoin, getting an approval from them for such projects may be difficult and frustrating.

And if they don't like it, that's to them own detriments. Financial Education and History of Money should be a must in schools. Money that's all rotated back to the government ? Purely wickedness.
Gradually when people see that in the history of money Bitcoin is arguably the best and sound money. The change will come gradually ( Certain )

When one is part of a problem, he cannot bring change or solve the problem. Government's should have placed laws to back Bitcoin,financial literacy and Education but they're part of the problem and cannot bring a solution to this. They champion the drawback to Bitcoins growth since they are huge beneficiaries.

In very few countries kids were taught well about basics of accounting and economics. As said without knowing the process involved with the paper currency printing to the end user it is unable to understand the value of bitcoin and its working through school education. A curriculum or a chapter starting from batter system to the present cryptocurrency, and further briefing bitcoin will make this effective.

Yeah, but I guess the prince won't recommend Bitcoin to be included in their schools' education if he's clueless about it. Although he is more into finance, there must be a reason why the man is convinced of the potential of Bitcoin and wanted the youngsters of the country to formally learn about it.

But my point is that plain influence plays a big role. It could at least start the ball rolling. He's the prince. As a matter of fact, a popular actor could convince more about something than somebody who really knows about it. We are in an age when even serious advocacies on climate change and poverty and justice and human rights and otherwise are to be pitched by the likes of Caprio and Clooney and Jolie and Bono and Watson.