Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

Why Schools Ignore Entrepreneurial Kids

29 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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Speaker argues parents and schools should teach children entrepreneurial skills ("teach kids to fish") instead of providing handouts, proposing identification and nurturing of entrepreneurial traits similarly to gifted-science tracks. The speaker criticizes MBA programs for preparing corporate employees rather than company founders, observes cultural narratives that cast entrepreneurs negatively, and supports claims with a family history of entrepreneurship and a personal inability to fit traditional employment.

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I think we have an obligation as parents in a society to start teaching our kids to fish instead of giving them the fish. If we can teach our kids to become entrepreneurial, the ones that show those traits to be like we teach the ones who have science gifts to go on in science. What about if we saw the ones who had entrepreneurial traits and taught them to be entrepreneurs? We could actually have all these kids spreading businesses instead of waiting for government handouts. Our MBA programs don't teach kids to be entrepreneurs. They teach them to go work in corporations. So who's starting these companies? It's these random few people. Even in popular literature, the only book I've ever found that makes the entrepreneur into the hero as Atlas Shrugged. Everything else in the world tends to look at entrepreneurs and say that we're bad people. I look at even my family. Both my grandfathers were entrepreneurs, my dad was an entrepreneur, Both my brother and sister and I, all three of us own companies as well. And we all decided to start these things because it's really the only place we fit. We didn't fit in the normal work. We couldn't work for somebody else because we're too stubborn and we have all these other traits.