Entrepreneurship is all about starting, running, and managing your own business, and it often requires some level of innovation and risk to create both financial and social value in our communities.
There are various types of entrepreneurship, but let’s focus on the one that can truly benefit the everyday person. I believe that every student, whether in high school or college, should have a mandatory skill or trade tied to their diploma. Back when I was in school, we had to prove we had practical skills before graduating. That’s what I’m talking about. If our government could get on board with promoting this kind of entrepreneurship, it would really benefit society. So many people finish school and struggle to find their way, but with the support of entrepreneurship programs, they could thrive in other ways.
I honestly think our economy could see real change if we take this seriously and plan for future needs.
What do you all think about this?
It must not be the government that 2ill make it mandatory before parents should know that going to school alone isn't enough for a secured future. Parents should put more concern into this and register their children on skill acquisition programs or send their children to learn a skill when they're on holidays.
This will be of help to them in future because they have two ways to earn money for themselves either through their school or the skill that they learned.
Lets take a break a little, the sentences in your post are honestly confusing and it'd be great if you can fix it.
Anyway, entrepreneurship shouldn't be forced but instead incentivized. The people who want to dive into entrepreneurship should be helped in terms of bureaucracy and capital to get started. Even with just that, it's already good enough.
Let the people who want to do entrepreneurship do what they want to do, government just facilitate it and make life easier here and there.
Why it should be forced or place as mandatory is before you graduate in school at least it will be written somewhere in your certificate that you have attended and learn from entrepreneurship centre, before you can graduate without having something doing
This is what I mean.
If not place as mandatory many will not even look at it ,during our sets many didn't do it many where running from it that is why it should be place as a mandatory.
Why don't you demand these innovations in your local section? What you're writing here is completely unclear, since everyone is from different countries. I don't understand what you mean by "forced entrepreneurship", since education in my country is completely different. So, think carefully about what you're going to discuss and where you'll discuss it.
Above all, you shouldn't worry about what others are doing. Focus on your own life if you believe you're doing the right thing and not interfering with others' lives.
The matter you mentioned here can undoubtedly be considered a good initiative, but the primary education of children who attend primary school is the education of their parents. If a parent wants, they can make a child focus on any one task. So I would say that for all these tasks, first of all, there is no alternative to parents. Secondly, primary school teachers need to find out if there is such talent in the student, and to arouse the child's interest in that task in the child who has the talent. If a child is motivated for any task from an early age, then the trend of that task continues in that child.
In my country, entrepreneurship has been taught since high school, and it's one of the extracurricular subjects required for students. However, so far, I haven't seen any real benefit from this lesson other than burdening students with tons of entrepreneurial homework that actually just wastes money. Because entrepreneurship isn't something that can be learned easily - entrepreneurs have instincts and intuition that can't be developed through repetitive classroom exercises alone. The result is that not many students who learn about entrepreneurship become entrepreneurs, and they end up treating the subject as just another obligation to pass.
Thank you ma'am, I was actually wanting to point to op to move this to our local section when I checked through his profile I noticed it is a follow local board.
You know, one thing about most users is that they don't actually know where a post should belong and even if such post should belong to the general board how do they addressed their actions and feelings to suites the general public is not what they can't actually expressed carefully, instead they wouldn't mind using their local express to over feed the general public while such feeling should be carefully expressed at their local board.
Immediately I read what op wrote above, I knew it wasn't a general discussion, instead a local engagement where same locality can share their fellow feelings towards the development of their country.
Entrepreneurship is one subject that is being taught across the academic levels from the elementary level to the high School level and to the high institution. In my country for instance, from your high school level, you've be taught what is called business studies, this business studies teaches you the pros and cons on how to manage a business. However we still have vocational schools that teaches you handcraft, they also do well to teach you skills that you could use to survive in the society like mechanical skills, electrical skills, plumbing and the rest of it.
Entrepreneurs must have passion and enthusiasm for the field they want to do business in. Otherwise, they will get bored, especially if the results are not what they want. It is different if we work for a salary, where the amount is fixed and we get paid regularly every month according to the initial agreement. There are also sales bonuses if we work in sales. Sales bonuses can even be higher than the basic salary if we are capable.
Entrepreneurship should indeed be instilled and taught from elementary school. This way, the desire to become an entrepreneur will develop in children's minds, rather than the idea of working for others.
Being an entrepreneur takes a lot - you have to multitask, likely be above average intelligence, not succumb to stress, be able to think creatively and accept failure as part of the process. Quite simply, not everyone is built like that and not do they have to be. Society needs people to do all kinds of jobs and it works successfully in most places. You're right in the fact that maybe some countries/governments offer better support to entrepreneurs than others, so that process can always be improved on, but the idea that everyone should be an entrepreneur is not going to work
What the heck?? You cannot mix "Option" and "Mandatory" classifications in the same subject. That's contradictory lol. I suggest adjusting the title. It's wrong.
There are many reasons it's not mandatory, since not everyone wants it. Depending on what you are taking on, some curricula include entrepreneurial courses that could bring that attention to the student. Of course, there are online platforms as well, but it doesn't sit well with me if it's mandatory.
Sure I get your point but why it should be mandatory is it should only be done in schools before they are graduatedand leave the school,that is why is supposed to make it as composrary, everyone must do it before they leave ,with this it will help in the society of today crime and other criminals activities will reduce.
Way back during my school age, entrepreneurship is taught with the right methods and strategies on how to be a successful and productive entrepreneur. But suggesting it to be compulsory in higher institution levels, I don't think it will be possible in our country. If you are taking business management and finance courses, maybe that could be an inclusion but other students have different goal course, so they will stick to it because that will be helpful in their future endeavors.
Entrepreneurship creates profitable individuals in the making, however not all students would want to be entrepreneurs in the future so we should respect that.
Some people do not have what it takes to be an entrepreneur or they just simply dont want to. They want to be enslaved to corporate all their life and have no plans of being financially free as long as they are being paid. But being paid is not really the same as freedom because you are working under someone no matter how big your salary is.
Small Businesses often close too soon because they cant support their own business and its unfortunate because they havent really seen the potential of their business due to lack of support.
Technical or vocational education should be optional. Some students may not have an interest in acquiring these skills, and forcing them to do so might not be productive. Students should be allowed to engage in educational activities they are interested in and not be forced to choose a field. I know some students who are interested in sports and they are doing just fine.
If the government believes that vocational skills are lacking in the country, it has the responsibility of attracting students by offering certain incentives. Parents could also encourage their children to acquire certain skills instead of wasting time at home when they are seeking admission into higher institutions.
Your title "an option and mandatory" are two words that are not meaning the same thing to your post, they make your intention confusing.
If you make entrepreneurship optional that means people have a choice to choose against it. On the other side saying mandatory means forcing people to learn entrepreneurship whether they like it or not, so you see the confusion there?
But I understand your point that having an entrepreneur skill is good, it has to be into school curriculum to be mandatory. But you can't also force it on people because after learning it they still choose to live their lives the way that they choose.
What is important is for individual to understand themselves and know how better they can fit into the society and better their own life too. As we can see with the economic development, the world has gone digital and technology is now ruling, so to learn skills in such direction will help some to have a lucrative source of income, jobs like programming, cyberspace management, digital information management etc will be in greater demand in the future.
I too strongly believe its something we should be taught in school and promoted by the government. The sad reality of our society (at least the one I live in) is that we seek job as the first option rather than entrepreneurship. My father was an office worker. He did earned to give me a good education and raise me well but while I grew up, only option I saw ahead of my life was becoming an office worker. It was a safe job which I was comfortable with. I got in a different filed but I'm still an officer worker because my father was one.
I do have entrepreneurship mind now but still I'm not willing to risk my comfortable salary doing something I have no practical experience of, I may have theoretical knowledge but I'm afraid I might fail.
If I were introduced and faced the real market from an early age, be it working under another entrepreneur or just working for my intern marks, I would have more hands on knowledge which couple with the theoretical understanding of age could have benefited people like myself.
Maybe not to the extent of being mandatory like OP says. I believe that schools must teach financial literacy, and the idea of entrepreneurship should at least be introduced.
You know how it goes in our country, even the elderly rarely supports those who dream of becoming an entrepreneur. They always say "study well so that you may get a good job". It feels like their minds are wired to become corporate slaves, instead of encouraging the youth to pursue their dreams. Now I'm not saying that working a 9-5 job is a bad thing, since I know some people who climbed up the ladder and make good money. I just think that we should be more open to different career paths and opportunities.
How can entrepreneurship become mandatory? It is the choice of the person who is doing it to continue doing it, it is a difficult step to take in life, families rarely support that type of endeavors and hence not easy.
The problem solving is not present in everyone, hence new solutions to existing problems rarely come up properly.
However the mindset is what I feel is also important, keeping the mind to develop something new and do something new for the society should be there.