Why are people in general, not taught from young to aspire for entrepreneurship?

[Mr.Big Meat McGee]

7-8 of 10 Entrepreneurs end failing

Plus someone has to work the low end jobs

 

[mannyrs13]

Oversaturating the market.

Not everyone can succeed at andrepenewership. Ask The Nigerian.

Mainly this. Too much of one thing can decrease it's worth. Kind of like the supply and demand theory. If you open up too many businesses with the same products, the demand will go down. Plus you need people to help run the business and it goes further than the ones that work at your business. I'm talking your manufacturers, suppliers, transport, etc. It's not just buy some retail space, put some products in there, and start selling. You need a hierarchy to run a successful business. Now if you were to day something like why aren't people taught at an early age to be wiser with their money than that would be more logical.

 

[Billie Jean]

Came to post something similar. We're taught by cowards that set up a cowardly system:

“I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions. Although teachers to care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic -- it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.” (John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education)

 

[Henri Christophe]

Came to post something similar. We're taught by cowards that set up a cowardly system:

“I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions. Although teachers to care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic -- it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.” (John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education)

The education system definitely needs some reform or fine-tuning...

 

[Aphrodite]

Great thread. Great points made too.