Mad About
Money
TEAM WORK
MATTERS
If you are aiming for financial
freedom and has a family, your
spouse also needs to think
likewise. As a team, you need to
work out on your financial gains
and expenses to reach towards
financial freedom.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
IS A DIFFERENT BALL
GAME
The gap between the
education system and
entrepreneurship is
still huge despite the
developments witnessed
in the schooling systems.
CONTRIBUTION OF
CONVENTIONAL
SCHOOLS
Conventional schools
prepared students for
living life in a disciplined
manner. Students of
such schools were
expected to just absorb
information in a passive
manner. The teachers
acted as the major
source of knowledge and
information. Parents had
no role to play in a typical
conventional school
scenario.
Conventional schools
treated the community
around as a separate entity
which was involved only
for commercial purposes
attached to education.
Marks scored by the
students in the exams
conducted by the schools
acted as the basic tool
to assess the level of
knowledge of students.
Schools worked more
like one of the tasks to be
endured by the students
than a value adding place.
All the above created a
subservient mentality in
students right from the
young age. They grew up
with a mindset which was
highly closed. The activity
of fostering thinking did
not happen at all. Children
grew up like machines
which worked in a perfect
manner as per the given
instructions.
Progressive schooling is
the requirement of the
day. Instead of preparing
students to live life,
schools must become
a part and parcel of life.
Schooling must not
alienate students but
involve them in activities
as problems solvers and
planners. Teachers must
take the role of guides
and facilitators fostering
creative thinking skills
rather than remaining
entities of authority.
Parents must be involved
in the learning experience,
making children learn goal
setting and many more
attributes that will lead
them to success.
Children must be allowed
to take decisions so that
their risk taking abilities
get fostered right from a
young age. Learning must
be approached more
from a pragmatic angle
and must not get limited
to the content in the
text books. Knowledge
assessment of students
must be based on
their interactions rather
than just their grades
in the exams. Such
assessments must lead
to progression rather
than being the end point
to define the potential of
students.
CHANGE IN THE
APPROACH OF
SCHOOLS
When the approach of
schools changes and the
community gets involved
in the complete process,
every child will learn
entrepreneurial skills right
from their childhood. No
school or college can
foster entrepreneurial
skills in an exclusive
manner. They can only
teach a bunch of life skills
which can value add to
the students as future
human beings.
Creating entrepreneurs
is the collective
responsibility of many
entities around students.
Let us stop creating
employees in huge
numbers. Employees
create middle income
class of people in the
society. When we focus
in creating more and
more entrepreneurs,
we create a world of
successful business which
will improve the quality
of life we live in a holistic
manner.
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