Economics was a required course at a private boarding school in New Hampshire in 1967. So too was typing, requiring 30 error free words per minute on a Smith Corona to complete. Today we would call it keyboarding - exactly what I am attempting to do this very moment! Both valuable courses.
Our economics instructor was Spencer Wright; aka carrot top. He was business like in his manner as one might expect except when coaching the hockey team. His "manner" changed accordingly. One requirement he had for his students of economics was to read the Wall Street Journal each day and note the highlights he would make on the front page articles. If the article ran to columns further beyond the front page, it was a good idea to read the whole article for any further highlights; they often showed up on a quiz.
What I remember from that course remains buried in the recesses of an old memory. The specifics of any of those highlighted articles - not at all! Supply and demand, marginal utility, scarcity, cost and prices, etc. no doubt were discussed only to be repeated for me in the required freshman curriculum course of Econ 101 - Samuelson was the text.
What I distinctly remember was a copy of the final exam (to be taken by all 800+ freshman class students) was circulating the night before the text. I felt confident enough to avoid the temptation to "participate" - as I was more concerned with my confidence for a math exam the following day.
I passed the Econ course. Many of my fellow classmates did not. A few continued their education in Viet Nam and a few ended up in finance.
I'm not an economist - it is after all termed the "dismal" science.
Spencer should have written a text book