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Imagine what would happen if we spent as much time trying to teach kids to become Founders as we did trying to get them to prepare for the SATs?
Kids are natural entrepreneurs. They possess the most powerful skill any of us can have, which is a natural tendency to question everything (a fact that is often less endearing as a parent!).
We need to teach kids the value of working on something that they own. As Founders, we've all gone through the process of "birthing a company," much like a child, where we feel total and complete ownership of something. It's part of us.
We need to give kids a taste of that ownership early and often. We need to teach them that the world can be something of their own creation, not just a prescribed job at a company that was someone else's passion 50 years ago.
Though, not every kid should (or is going to) be a Founder. Our job should be to open the Pandora's Box of entrepreneurship for every child.
Teaching kids about startups is about showing them a path to personal creation, emotional ownership, and, let's just get crazy here and say... a job that they might just actually be insanely passionate about.
The world already has plenty of bored employees. The world needs more passionate Founders.