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This study investigated excessive scholastic education: Shifting focus to developing economic capacity through financial education among 21st century persons with disabilities in Imo State, Nigeria. A correlational survey was adopted 120 participants comprising of 60 school graduates with disabilities and 60 parents of graduates with disabilities were purposively selected for the study. A 28 item instrument self-developed and validated with reliability coefficients ranging from 0.83 to 0.88 was used to elicit opinions of participants on the relevance of financial education to developing economic capacity among 21st century persons with disabilities. The data collected were statistically analyzed using Pearson Correlation and Multiple Regression Analysis. The findings revealed that financial education is critical to developing economic capacity among persons with disabilities. It was recommended among others that Government and education policy makers should ensure that financial education becomes an integral component of basic education targeted at equipping all children including those with disabilities with economically relevant skills, personal saving habits and how to establish small and medium scale enterprises.