"Let's Raise Our Kids To Be Entrepreneurs"
"We're Giving Them Ritalin & Saying To Them:
Don't Be An Entrepreneur Type,
Fit Into This Other System And Become A Student"
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Don't Be An Entrepreneur Type,
Fit Into This Other System And Become A Student"
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By C.J. Westerberg
Cameron Herold is an entrepreneur and proud of it. He also did not do well in school for a variety of reasons with the main one being how his ADHD manifestations were at odds with the expectations of the school "system".
We really think this TED video has some powerful messages that parents and educators may find both enlightening and disturbing on various levels. Our rush to have kids fit into the increasingly standardized-tested-mold presently heralded by our education system is NOT the best plan for the interests and future success of many of our most talented children. There are unique strengths, interests and talents where one size does not fit all.
Herold points out how entrepreneurship is often viewed by education elites outside the purview of education. He asks parents and teachers to be able to "find these kids with entrepreneurial traits" and to help "foster this talent". If one realizes that our country's economic health is driven by small business owners with the majority share of total jobs and revenue coming from small businesses, we may reconsider the short shrift given to the premise of entrepreneurism. (Small businesses may grow to much bigger ones, some not. Yet most all