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And so it seems that entrepreneurship classes should be made mandatory in K-12 to combat this teacher bias.
Interesting value judgment there.
On another note, academic achievement != academic credentials, or IQ. Academic achievement == learning, ability, effort. Schools aren't a perfect vehicle for this, but I'd much rather improve what we have than throw it all out to focus our students on how to make money.
Thought experiment: Would it be more or less difficult for a student to become wealthy if everyone was taught how? How does this compare to mathematics?
I do agree that there needs to be much more training on financial matters, including the matters that make a business run in the K-12 level.
On the other hand, a basic level of education is needed to succeed financially. Remember, 80% of billionaires went to college: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=551121 A large number of millionaires went to college: http://www.smartmoney.com/spending/rip-offs/10-things-millio...
The vast majority of students in K-12 public schools aren't going to be headed into jobs where entrepreneurship is an option, let alone important. Far more useful would be basic home-econ, as most people will end up using that in their day-to-day lives.
EDIT: Plus, most of the information given would probably be wrong.
The vast majority of students in K-12 public schools aren't going to be headed into jobs where entrepreneurship is an option, let alone important. Far more useful would be basic home-econ, as most people will end up using that in their day-to-day lives.
The vast majority of students won't end up being physicists either.
I don't think you could say the same thing about entrepreneurship. It's not a building block of a subject in the same way that physics is.