When kids are
younger, they have their own ways of thinking. If you notice and think in
retrospect, you will recollect that as a kid, you did have some ideas you felt
could have totally rocked the world. But as we grew up, these thoughts were
confined to certain restrictions and constrains that we got accustomed to
thinking in one particular direction. This, for so many years of our lives,
that thinking out of the box has become very impossible for us.
But the scenario
today is very different. Kids are encouraged to think differently and express
their ideas. Educational institutes around the world are trying to develop a unique education system that will not
only encourage children to express their ideas confidently, but also nurture
their business ideas confidently. Hence, there are so many interschool
competitions that are organized on a yearly basis to give a platform to the student entrepreneurs.
The best idea wins the price. These young entrepreneurs are judged not just on
the basis of their ideas, but even how they present it, what benefits the
society is going to gain from their ideas and how it will be worthy of the
money the investors put in.
Competitions of
these kind prepare the young entrepreneurs for the challenges of tomorrow.
There are even classes for these. It is not a typical class environment where
the teacher talks and the students listens. They are interactive sessions where
equal participation is encouraged from all students.
Other than
entrepreneurship, coding is another skill set which many thinktanks believe
should be taught to kids at a very young age. Coding for kids and
learning the language of programming (language that helps us to communicate
with a computer) will place them on the driver’s seat of technology and not
just more consumers. They can produce their own programs and games making the
learning all the more fun and exciting.
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