Rating 2 out of 5 (A little platitudinous)

Children are to be taught all about money and debt. In the high spending, high credit, high debt world of modern Canon Precentors, I can understand the need. If we're to create a future generation of responsible, solvent Canon Precentors, then it's vital that we teach them good money management at the earliest possible age.

But there is a serious problem with modern money management. Too many of today's transactions are performed by computer, online or by plastic. We no longer get the warm loving touch of feeling a ten pound note, with it's ruddy brown colour and delicate silvery security strip. Fewer and fewer people are taking their twenty pound notes out of their bank accounts to caress them gently, to flick a large pile of cash through their fingers and think "this is mine". This lack of tactile experience with hard dosh is making us forget about the dangers of love of money.

So why not withdraw large dollops of dough from the bank so that you can remember just what it's like to love money and just how sinful that can be.

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