Simply put, from kindergarten through undergraduate and grad school, you learn very few skills or attitudes that would ever help you start a business. Skills like sales, networking, creativity and comfort with failure. No business in America — and therefore no job creation — happens without someone buying something. But most students learn nothing about sales in college; they are more likely to take a course on why sales and capitalism are evil. Moreover, very few start-ups get off the ground without a wide, vibrant network of advisers and mentors, potential customers and clients, quality vendors and valuable talent to employ.
You learn it outside the classroom, talking to fellow human beings face-to-face. Start-ups are a creative endeavor by definition. Yet our current classrooms, geared toward tests on narrowly defined academic subjects, stifle creativity. In America, today there are just…. We citizens of the United States of America have had a lot of evolvement of the years.
Funding for many schools and homes has dropped. Schools are losing their technology and supplies that are to be provided for the students. There are those kind souls out there who have shelter for those in need; they have food for the Hungary.
School dropout rates are higher than before. Almost 3 out of 10 teen American girls will get pregnant at least once before they hit age 20, that's nearly , teen pregnancies every year. Parenthood is the leading reason that teen girls drop out of school.
Teen pregnancy is a common issue in America. Despite the sharp decrease in the dropout rate in rural America between the years and which essentially closed the gap between the urban and rural dropout rates, over 10 percent of rural students still do not finish high school and have difficulty finding gainful employment e.
One in every 6 students in the county are not graduating high school on time, and 1 in 21 girls aged 15 to 19 give birth each year — one of the highest teen birth rates in the state. Putnam County, about miles away, is the best ranked county in the state for children.
Compared to Putnam, children in McDowell County are twice as likely to struggle with hunger and not graduate on time, and nearly 3 times as likely to not survive childhood. Adolescent girls are 4 times as likely to have a baby. With the isolation of the surrounding mountains, the dwindling jobs and the steady loss of business, children and families in McDowell County also lack access to critical services. Parents seeking developmental support and testing for their children — including genetic and autism assessments — need to travel up to two hours or more for such services.
Its more accessible location and greater family resources are major factors giving children a good chance to reach their full potential. As children grow and begin to turn an eye toward their futures, there are at least three universities within a minute drive. McDowell and Putnam Counties are just two examples of the unacceptable reality in America, where one child can be exponentially more likely than another to succeed in life based solely on where they grow up.
Let us take a look at Mr. Ellsberg's argument. But if you reach such a conclusion, you have probably had your creative thinking crushed by such unnecessary college courses as economics, statistics, and philosophy where they teach logic.
Ellsberg takes us down a different road. Yes, colleges are good at producing "professionals with degrees. Ellsberg fails here to mention doctors or engineers or researchers or any other professionals in fields related to science and mathematics, where we do in fact face a dangerous shortage in the United States and upon whom global health, global innovation, and the global economy are so dependent.
People with college degrees do indeed earn more -- and find jobs more easily, with an unemployment rate at present in this country of about five percent -- but, Mr. Ellsberg insists, "there is little evidence to suggest that the same ambitious people would earn less without college degrees particularly if they mastered true business and networking grit.
I leave it to the reader to determine whether or not "grit" sounds like a reasonable alternative to a better system of science education for America's youth. As for the detail that most business creators have college degrees? Ellsberg is prepared for that one as well.
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