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May17
Entrepreneurship In School? Laughable!

Greg Galant, author of one of my new favorite blogs, Venture Voice, recounts a story about speaking to a 4th grade class about business and entrepreneurship.

They didn't know what an entrepreneur was.

I am a product of the Florida Public Education System and let me tell you...

Unless you have an entrepreneur in your family or get exposed elsewhere, there is no way entrepreneurship as a career choice would even cross your radar screen throughout your education.

The public school system exists primarily to crank out middle class citizens to fuel the economy in two ways:

1) to be employees, and
2) to consume products and services

Out of the many aptitude and career counseling exams I took in middle and high school, and out of all the meetings with my guidance counselors, not once did I hear the words, "Your test results indicate that you are well suited for entrepreneurship."

Now, as an adult, I recognize the personality traits, aptitudes and characteristics that I share with my fellow entrepreneurs.

Had I never happened upon the opportunity to be self-employed, who knows how long it would have taken me to find my calling in entrepreneurship.

It is a disservice to our country and its economy to not offer exposure to entrepreneurship in the public school system during the career counseling process.

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Entrepreneurship can be taught to some extent (e.g. in graduate school). The classes give you a taste of it... which helps you discover if you have a flair for it...

Adam,

Glad to know that there are people who feel the same way that I do about the current school system!

Hit the nail right on the head. I am always interested in how people become entrepreneurs. I was raised by entrepreneurs and it took me years to understand that I was one too. I first tried the multiple years of education (two masters degrees) and the hell called corporate america before I realized who I really am.

I think I wasn't drawn to the entrepreneur's way of life because my parents were entrepreneurs.

We lived in an old broken down house while my friends lived in nice middle-class neighborhoods (the house was one of my parent's rentals).

Our cars were jalopies.

We were always working.

We were always short of cash.

I thought I wanted what my middle-class friends had. It never dawned on me that what my parents were doing (spending every nickle they had on buying rental property)would eventually make them multi-millionaires.

It took the pain and failure of corporate america do rediscover my roots. Yes, I'm chronically short of cash, I live in a broken down house (that I'm remodeling to be a rental), and I drive an jalopy, but I'm a whole lot happier.

Any other good self-discovery stories out there?

Entrepreneurship not simply a subject, like math, that is learned. It is much more than a mere subject.

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