Ben Casnocha weighs in
On the subject of starting an "entrepreneurship club" on the high school level, something in which I have an interest with my new employer, Ben Casnocha had this to say:Yes, there do seem to be student clubs on nearly every topic imaginable. Though it may pay to be in a niche, it'd be great to see you start an entrepreneurship club that embraces the wide definition of life entrepreneurship. We need to get more students to reject the cog-driven please-the-superior-and-follow-all-the-rules bullshit that most schools reward. So perhaps your club can look at great people in world history who went against the beaten path and made the world a better place because of it. Of course, brainstorming business ideas is always fun (start by making a list of all the problems that bug high school kids, then figure out solutions) but I'd start by developing a framework of thinking different, and discuss how such a framework can be applied to ANYONE.With respect to Ben, whose blog is one of my favorites, he didn't suggest anything I wasn't already doing with my classes at TCNJ.
I was reminded, however, of the fact that I'd participated in Junior Achievement in high school myself. At the time, JA was about students forming their own small companies for a brief time, and learning the stages. This is not unlike what I had in mind myself. So would I reinvent the wheel? It's hard to tell: JA today seems to be more about business in the general sense than about entrepreneurship in particular. I'm not interested in helping kids in my spare time to learn how to be employees. Teachers do that on the job enough already.
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