Mixing business with education

Entrepreneur, Sept, 2003 by Cheryl Moore

I recently read your April article "Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?" Yes, it can be taught across the curriculum, from kindergarten with picture books to graduate school. Anyone who graduates from high school, college or graduate school and is only prepared to be an employee is like someone hopping around on one foot. To have both feet on the ground, a student needs to be prepared to be both an employee and an entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurship awareness can be woven into math, science, social science and language arts. It can be part of a math word problem or a poem. Each student could create an entrepreneurship portfolio.

When a student enters college, he or she will be looking for a business to start. A teacher can be an entrepreneur. An artist can be an entrepreneur. An engineer can be an entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurship awareness is to the business community what health awareness is to the medical community.

CHERYL MOORE, PH.D.

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