At some point, society needs to realize that getting an education is not the prerequisite for being successful. Education should be viewed and utilized as a facilitator to achieving success. In other words, students should be working on “academic” knowledge in school while paving their career path simultaneously such to provide relevance to what they are learning. Trust me: students can still be “well-rounded” without taking sixty-five Math courses, reading 900 novels, and knowing the background of every Ancient Civilization.
We need to place more of an emphasis on students being entrepreneurs and tinkering with business ideas of future professions ahead of when they leave high school or college. School is the location where students have these opportunities to take risks and be innovative without fear of ruining their lives due to a business flop. Students who are not interested in business should be working on developing an extensive background in fields that truly interest them. If they change their minds during the course of their experiment who cares? Again: the emphasis should be on taking risks and being inventive while developing their ideas around topics that interest them and they are passionate about.
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I would agree that students have the opportunity to, as you say, tinker with business ideas in high school. Teachers need to be facilitators and guide them in the right direction, and give them real life skills with which to work . I also think they should be taught how to make a budget, spend, and save money, they need to use real life experiences to comprehend the usefulness of the skills they are required to master. Sometimes students just do as the teacher says, not really knowing the reasons behind what they do. When the teacher works to facilitate learning using real world examples and models it gives students a reason it is needed and may, possibly, be something they will use once they are free of the brick and mortar school.
Sandra
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