This subject really bugs me for some time. I'm software developer, engineer. In school and university we didn't study that subject. Now I see that its one of the most important and SHOULD be studied, since everything in our life is connected with finances.
Good start to understand why financial education is so important is the books by Robert Kiosaki. For Russian and Ukranian readers there's e-version of his books here
Rather good blog about finances is Get Rich Slowly