Creating An Entrepreneurial School

I have always been the type of person who thinks wild and beyond. When teachers complain about how they are not being paid, I always wondered how they are not being paid much.?The way the school system is structured will never allow teachers to earn much. The revenue model for the school is what is limiting.

Students pay once every term and teachers have to be paid for three to four months from that same amount. It's pertinent therefore to begin to look for new ways to fund schools. There should be an entire renovation of the business model of the school. We must rethink how a school should be run so that teachers can earn what can take them home.

Firstly, we have to start by looking at what the expected outcome of a high school system is or should be. Right now, the expected outcome is twofold:

1. Pass exams and get promoted

2. Pass the standardized tests and get into college or university

Designing schools to achieve this expectation maintains the school system as it is. You could introduce other activities but all they do is feed the major aim of the school system. To change the school system, we will need to change the expected outcome. This is where human-centered design becomes relevant.

But first, we need to find out the reason schools exists in the first place using the 5-why and also system analysis.

Why should people go to school?

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Why should they gain knowledge?

???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????To become useful to society

Why should they be useful?

???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????To be employed.

Why should they be employed?

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Why should they earn an income?

???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????To live comfortably.

This may be different for others but I suspect the end result will still be about making money and living comfortably. This makes the school part of a system that includes industry and government. When school was created, Industry needed factory workers, people who work a system.

However, with time industry improved itself but the school didn’t. The school kept producing people for a factory that no longer exists who only wanted to work for an income to live comfortably. And when they are not paid well, they demand to be paid more by embarking on industrial actions. The industry doesn’t just want schools to produce people who want to earn money but people who can create value and wealth. This connection resulted in schools not teaching students about finance, wealth, and value creation.

This is why most companies have their own internal University (training system) to cover up the fact that graduates from school don’t have the mindset and skills required to work.

What if we create a school where students only pay an entry fee?

What if teachers were entrepreneurs?

What if they were not paid a salary, but by the value they create?

What if the school becomes a platform where teachers and students meet?

What if the school teaches students to be entrepreneurial by practice?

What if the school intentionally prepares students to create value in the workplace rather than as a place to earn money?

The world needs more entrepreneurs, not just people with knowledge. Schools should be entrepreneurial so as to make the world more productive. Students should be learning how to use their ingenuity and creative potential to create value that moves resources from a lower level to a high level of productivity. Their creativity allows many others to become more productive.

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