Why teachers should read more books about entrepreneurship
By Jeff Lund
It’s no surprise that I have students who want a career outside — outdoors and Alaska. High school students all across Southeast Alaska have their eyes on the ocean or the forest and for good reason. There is a tremendous amount of opportunity in traditional, as well as entrepreneurial careers.
While I didn’t start reading books or listening to podcasts about entrepreneurship to inform my teaching, I have found it a valuable asset. I have never been much of a reader about education or educational theory. So much seems to be written by people who were in the classroom for a few years, then administration then became a studier of education in the abstract, theoretical manner and decided to write about it while the rest of us continued to live it.
Entrepreneurs often rail against teachers because many of them were the ones who were stifled by the stereotype: our ridged authoritarian ways in the classroom, we demanded compliance, silence and trained them to be subordinate workers prepared for a generation long-since past.
Author of Linchpin and Purple Cow, Seth Godin wrote, “Large-scale education was never about teaching kids or creating scholars. It was invented to churn out adults who worked well within the system.”
