I dont like the idea of selecting kids for anything at age 5. But I'm not sure its impossible. One of my most vivid memories of childhood is from about 7 year

I dont like the idea of selecting kids for anything at age 5. But I'm not sure its impossible. One of my most vivid memories of childhood is from about 7 years old, when my brothers class (he was 9 or so) was doing an entrepreneurial project. The premise was a company to build the best paper aeroplane, where longer flights would earn more money which you could spend on more materials. Or something. I remember being obsessed by it, and begging to be allowed to do it as well. The same things I love about startups now (having come back to that realisation after a detour to phd land) is exactly the same as then. What I love about startups is sort of hard to explain. Its not exactly running my own company, I find little excitement in the idea of a consulting firm. Its really being in that feedback loop of making, selling, reinvesting and growing. Its plugging the outputs back into the inputs, optimizing your clever piece of technology and scaling out of sight. I desperately want schools to include more of these sorts of projects when my kids (first one on the way, yikes :) go to school. I think entrepreneurship and creativity are deeply linked.