David Copperfield's Most Important Lesson...And I'm Not Talking Lesson Plan

Today’s quote comes from David Copperfield, a novel I first read in college when I was going through my read everything by Charles Dickens phase. Young David Copperfield meets Mr. Micawber who has many a problem with money; that is, he has no ability nor desire to manage his money well, always incurring debts and never able to pay them off, landing him eventually in debtors' prison. 

By the way, if you’ve seen the movie that came out a couple years back, Mr. Micawber does not get the kind treatment that Dickens gives him in the novel. And since we’re talking about the movie, I must say I absolutely loved it.

Today’s money quote is very wise and ironically comes from the bumbling money manager himself, Mr. Micawber:

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.”

Takeaways

Great literature is more than a great story.Just because we’re teachers doesn’t mean we’re destined to be poor.Create a budget and stick to it.

Resources

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