It’s easy to make learning too difficult. To focus too intently on curriculum or rubrics or teacher training, and not enough on the learner.
I’ve found that lighting an entrepreneurial spark in children is relatively simple; entrepreneurial curiosity and creativity are as natural to children as breathing.
The experience doesn’t need to be any more complicated than:
- Make something with your own hands;
- Sell it (safely) to someone you don’t know, for more than it cost to make;
- End up with some extra cash in your pocket.
Case in point, today’s Acton Children’s Business Fair, attended by many Acton Academy Eagles: 97 businesses; 189 young entrepreneurs; over 1,000 satisfied customers.
Above – a picture of an Acton Eagle selling 25 cent chances to shoot his little brother with a paintball gun. A double entrepreneurial bonus!
Hello! Love the words and insights regarding business, art, entrepreneurship and the Hero’s Journey. 🙂
You would enjoy the words and videos at Hero’s Journey Entrepreneurship:
http://herosjourneyentrepreneurship.org/
“A vast demand exists for the classical ideals performed in the contemporary context–for honor, integrity, courage, and committment–on Wall Street and Main Street, in Hollywood and the Heartland, in Academia and Government. And thus opportunity abounds for entrepreneurs who keep the higher ideals above the bottom line–for humble heroes in all walks of life.
The same classical values guiding the rising artistic renaissance will protect the artists’ intellectual property. The immortal ideals which guide the story of blockbuster books and movies such as The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, Braveheart, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Star Wars, are the very same ideals underlying the United States Constitution. These classic ideals–which pervade Homer, Plato, Shakespeare, and the Bible–are the source of both epic story and property rights, of law and business, of academia and civilization.
It is great to witness classical ideals performed in Middle Earth, upon the Scottish Highlands, long ago, in a galaxy far, far, away, and in Narnia, but too, such ideals must be perpetually performed in the contemporary context and living language.”