More Economics in High School/College Curriculum

With the current economic situation that the world is in, and the fact that the majority of Americans have absolutely no clue how the economy works or how to fix it, shouldn’t we be required to learn just a little bit more about how our economic system works. A person could be extremely smart and talented and go through their entire high school and college career and take just one economics class for 18 weeks. (Assuming you are required to take one economics class) My major is Mechanical Engineering so I’m not required to take this class, it is an elective, but I am however, required to take various ethics courses throughout my college career. Is it just me or if we as 18-20 year olds do not know the difference between right and wrong at this point in our lives, are we ever going to know? This is my second economics course at Ohio State in addition to one I took in high school and I still get frustrated when I hear all these people talk about the economic crisis on TV and I have no idea what they are talking about.
This is why I think if we are ever going to have a country where the general population can make educated decisions about who they choose to lead them we need to actually become educated in things that matter currently. Which is why if we are to graduate from college we should have to take at least one, probably more economics classes so at least we can pretend like we know what the “experts” are talking about.