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stories like this makes me want to send my 2 kids to Cupertino
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2010 May 11, 9:05am 1,576 views 3 comments
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I'd rather give my kid the tools to be happy and self aware. "Forget history, science, math" & "whatnot" and you forget the things that are worth living for...
SFace
2010 May 11, 10:09am
I know what you mean, but at 33 now, I figured out what my school taught me was practically useless. Real world skills are finance, social and selling skills. Those make you $$$. History and math makes you a good worker.
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2010 May 11, 12:05pm
what my school taught me was practically useless. Real world skills are finance, social and selling skills. Those make you $$$. History and math makes you a good worker.
I completely agree. If you work in the private sector, you have to know how to sell or are forced to sell. Unless you work for the government.
One way to evaluate a school is the quality of its speech program. I was tangentially exposed to public speaking thanks to Academic Decathlon and what-not but didn't have the opportunity to see its benefits until I was out of college, LOL.
Staying down in OC last weekend, on the public access channel I saw a bunch of high school students engaged in a "moot court"-like fake council meeting, held in government chambers. I thought, yup, that's how the movers-and-shakers raise their own.
http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109472/teenage-entrepreneurs?mod=career-work
"Cupertino High School senior Diane Keng pitches MyWeboo.com, her third start-up, at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.
Here is one indicator of the allure of Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial culture: Diane Keng just launched her third start-up -- and she is still in high school.
In March, the 18-year-old launched Internet company MyWeboo.com to help teens manage their digital lives and social-network identities in one place. She is now pitching the company to venture capitalists, and earlier this week presented at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.
Her high school alone is home to about 10 entrepreneurs, including a student who buys and flips websites that he thinks have potential."
Ms. Keng launched her first venture at age 15, when she started a T-shirt screen-printing business and later began a teen marketing-consulting firm. She says she ended up dropping the T-shirt company because it wasn't making enough money, "WOW"
Forget history, science, math, whatnot, this is the place to teach kids to be millionaires. To be financial literate and have the courage and skills to present and sell ideas, skills needed in the real world. Kids at 18 are already more financially capable than their teachers, it's all about being associated with high achievers.