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What age do you need to be to benefit from financial education? "Is it too late at 11, 12 or 13?" That's what Paul Lewis of Radio 4's Moneybox asked Tracey Bleakley of the Personal Finance Education Group. No, don't be daft. Of course, it's not too late. People develop at different rates and most of us never stop learning. People can and do change their habits throughout their lives. And anyway, most of us learn by doing. You can't properly "do" money until you start handling it for real, making proper choices about spending, saving and the rest. It's preposterous to suggest that if primary schools don't do financial education, a generation will be doomed to spend their lives unable to make ends meet, keep track of their money or plan ahead." PJ White on financial educators