A foundation called Taruna Bakti in Bandung, Indonesia has taken the initiative to educate 700 secondary school students in Indonesian secondary schools about Bitcoin. Maybe that's how Bitcoin is spreading to remote areas around the world. If these students learn about Bitcoin from an early age, they will grow up to be much more experienced about Bitcoin. After gaining experience with Bitcoin, they can teach other people about Bitcoin.
We have seen news in El Salvador that the President of that country, Nayib Bukele has taken various programs to educate school students in Bitcoin education to spread Bitcoin widely in their country even teaches Bitcoin to students there. This time Indonesia took the initiative.
News like this are definitely what pleases every member of this community, but my question is, what actually are these children being taught about Bitcoin?. Is it the technological (technical) part?, Or the Economical part that has to do with buying/selling and others. It's quite alright that both of these two parts are taught, but I feel school children or any place where such programs are run should know more about Bitcoin as a technology. I believe they don't really need to go indepth in terms of technicality, but at least have ideas on some basic things. The financial part shouldn't be left out of it though. But it's quite unfortunate that my country isn't really pushing for something like this.
I'm thinking about this too, many people will be happy with news like this because they think this will make bitcoin more popular and help bitcoin price go higher, and they will get more profit. But if we put ourselves in the shoes of those students' parents, would it be good to teach them about investing and trading right at school? Have these kids ever learned about financial management? If they have never had any financial training or education, teaching them about bitcoin may not be beneficial to them.
What if they neglect their studies, use their tuition fees to invest in bitcoin, and even engage in highly leveraged bitcoin trading? Introducing bitcoin to kids too early is like a double-edged sword, it is not as perfect as we think.