Natural Born Entrepreneurs - Classroom Taught Or Just Born With It?

Is it nature or nurture? The big test begins in the UK education system to see whether someone can be taught to be the next Richard Branson or are these people just born with it?

With the world opening up so many more opportunities to us and the next generation that our grandparents could only dream about, the UK government are coming up with the idea that maybe, just maybe, the art of being an entrepreneur can be taught in the classroom. We can thank the world wide web for everything, even the darker side of life now has it's roots buried deep withing the radio waves of the Internet, yet these sinister things are grossly outweighed by the real realities of what could be. Suddenly we can be anyone we want, including journalists (someone of us did go to journalism school for that) and perhaps this just might be another way for the government to prize the coins out of our purses, but even so, they might have latched onto something. So now, English kids are going to be taught the fundamentals of enterprise as the UK government push for the subject to be crow barred into the curriculum. Future PM, Gordon Brown has announced that he will writer out another fat cheque to the tune of $180 million over the next three years (probably in installments) to fund the big starry eyed lesson into every secondary school. Yet it has left a few thousand teachers stretching their heads. Surely it is a subject that can only be taught by those who have successfully made their first million. It would be rather like a school teacher teaching a bunch of pupils how to be a plumber. On the other hand, don't colleges, universities and even some schools have this subject already under wraps at a level which is not as daunting for the teacher? It's called business studies and millions of young people have already acquired qualifications from the subject. What pupils can learn from this slant on the enterprise theme is how to create a business out of nothing at all. Isn't that what enterprise is all about? Yes it is, and one particular pupil has already decided what his life is going to be like. A pupil learns how to make jam, he perfects it, then sells the recipe and idea to a company who then produce it for him, leaving his time now free to converse and do deals with local farmers and gardeners for the ingredients and sell the product onto supermarkets and shops. Simple right? So is it worth another 180 million out of the tax payers pocket for something that we have anyway? And what about our jammy pupil? He has cut a deal with one of the leading supermarkets in the UK, Waitrose, already and has a business waiting for him as soon as he is out of full time education. So the old system does work. Okay, so schools will not be able to teach children how to develop a name, buy an airline, trade in a mobile phone company simply from selling a couple of records, this has to come from within. If it is not there, then it will be money wasted on kids and parents who think that in a few lessons, their child is going to be the next chairman of ICI. The downside for the pupils is that they will think that being an entrepreneur will be a job they can pick up easily. If you were to sit down with the likes of Mr Branson, I can bet your bottom dollar he will come up0 with a hard working tale which would make most kids run for the hills.... Back to the drawing board, Mr Brown.....