Importance of entrepreneur in school curriculum

[uneng]

Unfortunatelly students are discovering entrepreneurship only when they finish their studies and start working autonomously for themselves. If they had this subject at the school since an early age they could prepare themselves much better for the next phase of their lives inside the jobs market.

But for some reason governments don't think it's interesting to introduce the subject on the curriculum's grade. I believe it's due to the fact entrepreneurship makes people autonomous and independent, while governments like depend people on their social programs and regulations. It's a mix of vanity, thirst of power and desire of being idolized by the masses.

[Nwada001]

It's true that many college graduates think that after they graduate they will work in various companies, many think like that it will cause intense competition in finding work, people who "lose" in this competition will be unemployed for an uncertain time, therefore the thought of starting a business is a lesson that should be taught from a young age

Earlier, before the 21st century, what our fathers actually had in mind for education back then was to go to school, acquire that knowledge, graduate with good grades, get home with those certificates, and then get a good white collar job. There was nothing more to that.

But right now, only a few individuals are actually going to school to study and compete for jobs; lots of people actually want to be their own boss, which they do by channeling all their energy toward what they actually want to do.

It's not when you graduate that you will start thinking of the right business to venture into; that will be ridiculous. Those business ideas should already be started because you are still in college. I know a lot of people who actually start businesses just to have something to do because they have searched for jobs their entire lives and didn't get any, so they just look for small money and work a little thing out for themselves in order not to be idolized. But I see those kinds of entrepreneurs as survivors.

[Mahanton]

The world runs out of the entrepreneurs. Majority of the jobs opportunities were created by the entrepreneurs. Government can give job to certain percentage of the population. From the very beginning students need to be allowed to choose what they need to be in their lives. When it comes to school curriculum it is the base.

Nowadays there were more and more changes in the school and university curriculum. In particular different days were celebrated to give real-time experience. Recently in a school I saw a celebration in which students need to prepare crafts and they need to have their stalls and sell things. Finally teams need to give the calculation on the amount spend and the difference amount earned. This will give them a better learning experience and understand how marketing needs to be done and so on. This means curriculum needs to be more experimental based than theoretical.

Change is never ending on which if a certain industry or trend would really boom up then expect that there would  really be those adjustments and its true that Government would continously offering or giving jobs which is a casual.Its up on a certain person whether they would really be getting into entrepreneurship world or path and its a matter of choice and im aint aware if its already included on the curriculum or not.
If ever there would be some considerations for some add up then it would really be good because it would really be somewhat beneficial on later career or on the time that they would
graduated or finished up their studies on which at least really having that kind of  awareness on what it is all about.

[JeffBrad12]

I think it would be more important to teach students in regard of taxes and other thing like money management instead, you just could hardly teach entrepreneurship in school because it will easily gets outdated.
but by teaching something like taxes you already saved them from the headache of discovering the overly complicated thing called taxes without the need of discovering themselves after they graduated.
that way they'd know what to do when they got some incomes and already know that taxes are here to cut that percentage of their income which is fine if allocated correctly.
also moreover, they should also being taught to exercise their right, as an entrepreneur, that'd help so much.

[EdenHazard]

I think it would be more important to teach students in regard of taxes and other thing like money management instead, you just could hardly teach entrepreneurship in school because it will easily gets outdated.
but by teaching something like taxes you already saved them from the headache of discovering the overly complicated thing called taxes without the need of discovering themselves after they graduated.
that way they'd know what to do when they got some incomes and already know that taxes are here to cut that percentage of their income which is fine if allocated correctly.
also moreover, they should also being taught to exercise their right, as an entrepreneur, that'd help so much.

Many school teach Entrepreneurship as a curriculum already and some of them thinks it works and some other thinks it's useless ... well that's normal to have the pros and cons but having such additional curriculum like that ...

Avoding taxes you mean? Lol that's good idea but not a good thing.

[benalexis12]

Students should really be taught early on about entrepreneurship, because the only mistake that I have seen planted in the minds of students is that when you graduate from college, our dreams in life will be reached or fulfilled.
It is wrong to think like this in reality. This is not true, every year there are many who graduate from college but most of them are unemployed, only a few get a good job but it doesn't mean that the job is good they have reached the dream they want, of course not. Almost all those who succeed in life are business people who have businesses.

[slapper]

The world runs out of the entrepreneurs. Majority of the jobs opportunities were created by the entrepreneurs. Government can give job to certain percentage of the population. From the very beginning students need to be allowed to choose what they need to be in their lives. When it comes to school curriculum it is the base.

Nowadays there were more and more changes in the school and university curriculum. In particular different days were celebrated to give real-time experience. Recently in a school I saw a celebration in which students need to prepare crafts and they need to have their stalls and sell things. Finally teams need to give the calculation on the amount spend and the difference amount earned. This will give them a better learning experience and understand how marketing needs to be done and so on. This means curriculum needs to be more experimental based than theoretical.

Slapping a hearty dose of entrepreneurship onto the education menu is as vital as adding some sizzle to a steak. Picture society as a giant mechanical behemoth, if you will, and entrepreneurs as the magical grease that keeps the old gal purring. They're not just the folks churning out jobs left and right, but trailblazers leading us through the wilderness to discover golden treasures – innovative gizmos and services that flip our lives upside down!

When it comes to job creation, sure, the government can lend a hand. But that's like trying to push a colossal machine uphill – sweaty, taxing work. Entrepreneurs, on the flip side, are like built-in rocket boosters, propelling us forward with style and ease. As such, it's crucial to arm our kiddos with an entrepreneurial toolbox.

Schools are finally waking up to this, tweaking their syllabuses like a mad scientist in a lab. Real-world shenanigans, like the one you mentioned where students morph into market stall moguls, peddling crafts and juggling numbers, are the perfect recipe to cook up an entrepreneurial storm. We need to throw more of these reality-based learning parties in schools, where students aren't just taught the dance moves – they get to shake a leg too!

[demonica]

Entrepreneurship is indeed important however, I feel like most entrepreneurship courses or subjects mostly teaches about technical terms about it. What is entrepreneurship, history, what are the types or kinds of blah blah blah. They don't really focus on making the students grow individually like being creative or something like what OP has mentioned. Most education system focuses more on throwing out new knowledge and terms to students rather than giving out useful skills or knowledge that they can apply once the student goes out into the real world.

I don't know if it's the same with others but this is what I've been noticing and what I also experienced since I also had an entrepreneurship-related subject before.

[savetheFORUM]

Unfortunatelly students are discovering entrepreneurship only when they finish their studies and start working autonomously for themselves. If they had this subject at the school since an early age they could prepare themselves much better for the next phase of their lives inside the jobs market.

But for some reason governments don't think it's interesting to introduce the subject on the curriculum's grade. I believe it's due to the fact entrepreneurship makes people autonomous and independent, while governments like depend people on their social programs and regulations. It's a mix of vanity, thirst of power and desire of being idolized by the masses.

It's actually different for different regions and countries. In some countries, if government institutes or schools don't focus on this like promoting entrepreneurship among students, most private sector institutions do that and that is the reason why most people don't like admitting their children to government schools or colleges.

But in some countries, even the private sector institutions mainly focus on theoretical studies instead of practical exercises and lessons which teach students how they should handle real-life situations when they grow up.

[sana54210]

Slapping a hearty dose of entrepreneurship onto the education menu is as vital as adding some sizzle to a steak. Picture society as a giant mechanical behemoth, if you will, and entrepreneurs as the magical grease that keeps the old gal purring. They're not just the folks churning out jobs left and right, but trailblazers leading us through the wilderness to discover golden treasures – innovative gizmos and services that flip our lives upside down!

When it comes to job creation, sure, the government can lend a hand. But that's like trying to push a colossal machine uphill – sweaty, taxing work. Entrepreneurs, on the flip side, are like built-in rocket boosters, propelling us forward with style and ease. As such, it's crucial to arm our kiddos with an entrepreneurial toolbox.

That will make it harder for people to work for others, and that would be the trouble. They are not educating you so that you could have your own business, they are educating you so that you could work for someone else. That is what education is, you are learning all the things you should in order to be a good worker.

This is why we have billions of workers all around the world, because all education is based on making them strive to be the best worker ever, even be CEO if they possibly can. Sometimes being a worker is better, less stress, if the company bankrupts then you can go work somewhere else, but you will never know the feeling of being rich because you will just be a salary to salary earner, and that's all you could hope for. If they put anything else, then where will everyone get their workers.

[Negotiation]

Entrepreneurship education teaches individuals to think outside the box and nurture conventional talents and skills. Entrepreneurship needs to be created under an institutional framework so that many students will not be unemployed. NGO foundations can finance the creation of small entrepreneurs. All assistance in its implementation should be provided by those acting as strategic leaders from that position. There is no alternative to creating trained entrepreneurs in the country. Despite the various limitations, the government should emphasize improving the quality of education in various ways and creating work friendly educational environment.

[uneng]

Unfortunatelly students are discovering entrepreneurship only when they finish their studies and start working autonomously for themselves. If they had this subject at the school since an early age they could prepare themselves much better for the next phase of their lives inside the jobs market.

But for some reason governments don't think it's interesting to introduce the subject on the curriculum's grade. I believe it's due to the fact entrepreneurship makes people autonomous and independent, while governments like depend people on their social programs and regulations. It's a mix of vanity, thirst of power and desire of being idolized by the masses.

It's actually different for different regions and countries. In some countries, if government institutes or schools don't focus on this like promoting entrepreneurship among students, most private sector institutions do that and that is the reason why most people don't like admitting their children to government schools or colleges.

But in some countries, even the private sector institutions mainly focus on theoretical studies instead of practical exercises and lessons which teach students how they should handle real-life situations when they grow up.

By what I observe here in my country, only when the individual reaches the adolescence he starts having some contact with entrepreneurship, if he is lucky enough to have an educational institution close to him which encourages the practice. However, it's not everywhere we see this kind of educational content. Most educational courses only focus on teaching the individual to become a employee, not a business owner.

Maybe where you live you have had contact with different experiences on this field. I believe entrepreneurship should be part of the content taught since the elementary school, that is when the child starts developing its social skills and contact with the world outside the familiar core.

[fauzan Ichsan]

Entrepreneurship education teaches individuals to think outside the box and nurture conventional talents and skills. Entrepreneurship needs to be created under an institutional framework so that many students will not be unemployed. NGO foundations can finance the creation of small entrepreneurs. All assistance in its implementation should be provided by those acting as strategic leaders from that position. There is no alternative to creating trained entrepreneurs in the country. Despite the various limitations, the government should emphasize improving the quality of education in various ways and creating work friendly educational environment.

In this era, entrepreneurship education is very important, because not everyone will become an employee, and of course the mindset must be changed because so far people have attended high school with the aim of getting a decent job, they have little thought of entrepreneurship. therefore the curriculum should provide more learning hours about entrepreneurship, so that it can change the mindset of students. On the other hand, how to target business opportunities must also be taught, because there are so many in the technological era, like today, that there are promising business opportunities, don't just think conventionally.

[southerngentuk]

Traditional educational systems for teaching entrepreneurship provide no instruction on how to make money. They are primarily focused on providing academic knowledge and preparing students for work, so topics in entrepreneurship and financial literacy may not receive due attention. So here, only parents are important in guiding their children and helping them develop an entrepreneurial mindset. Although there are still many parents who do not know much about financial knowledge, at least their children are still infected by the daily habits of their parents in the family, thereby helping them learn about knowledge on their own. But not everyone has the inclination or desire to be an entrepreneur, and that's completely normal. So we just need to give them knowledge, not force them to learn, because each individual has his or her own unique path to success and fulfillment.

[Kasabus]

The world runs out of the entrepreneurs. Majority of the jobs opportunities were created by the entrepreneurs. Government can give job to certain percentage of the population. From the very beginning students need to be allowed to choose what they need to be in their lives. When it comes to school curriculum it is the base.

Nowadays there were more and more changes in the school and university curriculum. In particular different days were celebrated to give real-time experience. Recently in a school I saw a celebration in which students need to prepare crafts and they need to have their stalls and sell things. Finally teams need to give the calculation on the amount spend and the difference amount earned. This will give them a better learning experience and understand how marketing needs to be done and so on. This means curriculum needs to be more experimental based than theoretical.

In order for the students to prepare theirselves in the future, the schools should be more responsible enough to give them experimental cases than simply based on theories alone. Entrepreneurship will create a big difference in the future of the students, so they should be taught about it at an early stage and schools are the best avenue for it with their best entrepreneurship courses. Also, that will prepare the newly graduates to have a source of income as a means of their living in case they can’t immediately land a stable job.

[blockman]

Students should really be taught early on about entrepreneurship, because the only mistake that I have seen planted in the minds of students is that when you graduate from college, our dreams in life will be reached or fulfilled.
It is wrong to think like this in reality. This is not true, every year there are many who graduate from college but most of them are unemployed, only a few get a good job but it doesn't mean that the job is good they have reached the dream they want, of course not. Almost all those who succeed in life are business people who have businesses.

It's not about dreams being fulfilled but it's about finding the dream job that they're wanting. But when the reality sinks in to them, they don't want to be in the same job that does the same tasks everyday. Thus, there goes those that has taken risks and stepped up into another game which is entrepreneurship and started their own businesses. These people has got balls but not every business, they know that it's not going to be an easy path. There could even be more frustrations upon building it up rather than being employed and get assurance with those paychecks that they'll receive whether it's a weekly, bi-weekly or a monthly pay.

[Smartvirus]

Well I think entrepreneurship is a program within the tertiary institution curriculum. It's a course for the 300L first semester. Where students gets to pull funds together, make value added products and market them. Get the funds and share it within themselves if they were a group or the individual gets yo have it all. All these would be supervised by a lecturer, remarked on and scores given.

The bias to this as I saw it was, they was more focused on you making profit and forgetting that even a lose was a result in business. The idea is the exposure and its left for the students to recount on there lose or profit and apply them through life.

[ChiBitCTy]

This write up speaks to what I've been saying since I myself was back in school many years ago.  I was constantly telling teachers "we will never ever use this in the real world" and to my credit, those statements have held true, but I do recognize the importance of challenging and sharpening your brain, but more real world stuff needs to be built in to school curriculums and I couldn't agree more to what you're stating here.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

It is from this that teaching entrepreneurial thinking can make a person more confident. Each person has their own talents, but not everyone can reveal them correctly. By teaching entrepreneurial skills, teachers should develop creativity in children and encourage them to feel free to express their opinions, regardless of their age. If teachers listen more seriously to children's ideas and motivate them to develop, a person grows up more talented, which ultimately encourages them to create their own projects and build their own business.

I agree with you, sir; some people (both children and adults) may have hidden talents in them, but they may be confused about identifying what their main talents are because they can do different things smoothly or they can't do anything at all. Once one identifies what his or her real talent is, they may not face any big problems that they cannot scale, mostly when it concerns their talent. I feel the board of education has seen how helpful it is, which is why they are integrating it in schools. Like during my school days at the university, I did an entrepreneurship course in my third and fourth year, and to be honest, the skill I learned in the team where I belong is really good, and I will be practicing it if I have enough start-up capital.

Some of my teammates and other students in different teams are excelling in the skills they learned during our entrepreneur practicals. This study helps some break out of their low self-esteem and explore, and if they had not gone through the course, they would not have done better than they are doing now. Also, for those who have already identified their talent, it helps to model how to really go about it.

Almost every university in my country is doing entrepreneurial studies, but I don't know if it has also been initiated in secondary schools.

[slapper]

It is from this that teaching entrepreneurial thinking can make a person more confident. Each person has their own talents, but not everyone can reveal them correctly. By teaching entrepreneurial skills, teachers should develop creativity in children and encourage them to feel free to express their opinions, regardless of their age. If teachers listen more seriously to children's ideas and motivate them to develop, a person grows up more talented, which ultimately encourages them to create their own projects and build their own business.

I agree with you, sir; some people (both children and adults) may have hidden talents in them, but they may be confused about identifying what their main talents are because they can do different things smoothly or they can't do anything at all. Once one identifies what his or her real talent is, they may not face any big problems that they cannot scale, mostly when it concerns their talent. I feel the board of education has seen how helpful it is, which is why they are integrating it in schools. Like during my school days at the university, I did an entrepreneurship course in my third and fourth year, and to be honest, the skill I learned in the team where I belong is really good, and I will be practicing it if I have enough start-up capital.

Some of my teammates and other students in different teams are excelling in the skills they learned during our entrepreneur practicals. This study helps some break out of their low self-esteem and explore, and if they had not gone through the course, they would not have done better than they are doing now. Also, for those who have already identified their talent, it helps to model how to really go about it.

Almost every university in my country is doing entrepreneurial studies, but I don't know if it has also been initiated in secondary schools.

Absolutely, I believe fostering entrepreneurial skills right from an early age can be a game-changer in the education system. There is a potent mix of natural talent, creativity, and skill that often lies dormant within an individual, and it's our duty to tap into that wellspring. Identifying one's talent is indeed a complex task. It's a bit like archaeology; it requires patience, diligence, and sometimes the right tools to unearth the hidden treasures within us. But once discovered, these talents can become the bedrock of success, resilience, and innovation.

Your experience at the university is a powerful testament to the impact of entrepreneurship education. Start-up capital is indeed a critical element, but remember, some of the most successful businesses began with a strong idea, perseverance, and a shoestring budget. As for the implementation of entrepreneurial studies in secondary schools, it is a burgeoning trend. It would indeed be a smart move. After all, why wait till university to ignite the spark of entrepreneurship when we can fan those flames earlier? This could be the stepping stone towards a generation of trailblazers and innovators.