> In a message of Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:52:09 PDT, "Kirby Urner" writes: > <snip>
> >In education, being a really small company is what's ultra cool. Because > >your students think they might want to be private, independent > entrepreneurs > >like you someday. > > This might be a better model for a general education -- instead of > training people to be factory workers, we might try training them > to be small business owners and entrepreneurs. It would certainly > be an interesting way to build a curriculum. > > Laura Yes. Here in Portland we have a new charter school working through the bureaucracy, trying to set up on just this model: a high school that turns out entrepreneurs, ready for college, but also ready to go into business (maybe in part to pay for college). Koreducators.org is the org behind it. I testified at the hearing, have been invited to do so again. Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig