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So an N = 1 anecdote, but as a kid, in elementary school (albeit not kindergarten) I was interested in starting my own business. There was a bank in the area ru
by Fomite 9y ago
So an N = 1 anecdote, but as a kid, in elementary school (albeit not kindergarten) I was interested in starting my own business. There was a bank in the area run specifically for young people (the Young Americans Bank in Denver, CO - it's amazing) that essentially had a club for that.
Most of it was kids selling handcrafts and things, but as I recall, there was one girl who had a custom map/layout design company and some others.
I think it was immensely valuable in teaching me how a business worked by thinking about applying it to the things I wanted to do, but it also had an ample helping of understanding the downsides, and at this point in my life, whenever there's a push to increase entrepreneurship in my field, my first reaction is "Uggh..."
- stuart78 9y agoI agree that clubs are a great solution for this kind of thing. I'd encourage kids to explore whatever interests them (business, dinosaurs, Model UN) as early as they're interested. But canonizing 'business' as a core educational pillar feels deeply misguided.
- Fomite 9y agoIndeed, for most kids, if we were making something a core educational pillar it should be financial literacy.