Yes ,you are right. Financial knowledge is very important to grow in life. Knowledge kick any person for work and struggle for success. No one became successful without knowledge of finance. Because I saw many athletes who are bankrupted after retirement. They earn money and had no knowledge of investment and they wasted their money in useless things and they bankrupted at the end. They did know how to invest in investments ,they lack knowledge of finance. Financial knowledge is also very important in our daily life to manage our expenses. Financial knowledge gave a path to grow in future and it gives a lot of opportunities .
Knowledge is the basic thing that we must learn and from knowledge will open the gates to a successful life in the future, including knowledge in matters that are closely related to economics and finance.
If we already understand that then without us realizing that we have opened the gate to success. You are right when talking about athletes who go bankrupt after they retire, it's because they can't take advantage of their prime in terms of finance or in other words they don't think about the future. Actually there are many factors that cause that, it could be because they don't care about the future or they really don't understand or don't have knowledge about the principles in maintaining the financial situation in their lives.