#5 Reasons Why a School Should Encourage BIZ Experiencesship The skills essential to being an BIZ Experiences should be inculcated from a young age through schools and their curriculum

It is said that a child's personality develops by the age of five. When you are young, your mind is more open to newer ideas; it is more creative and unconstrained by the limits of practicality and fear.

When you read stories of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell and Dhirubhai Ambani, you find one thing common — they are either college dropouts or simply high school graduates but they went on to become thought leaders, steering the companies that have actually changed our lives.

But, for each one that made it, there are thousands that did not, so maybe we need to change the way we approach BIZ Experiencesship.

The skills essential to being an BIZ Experiences should be inculcated from a young age through schools and their curriculum and should not only remain a prerogative of college going students. As a school leader and an BIZ Experiences, I think that encouraging BIZ Experiencesship from a young age is a step in the right direction.

Curriculum in progressive schools today concentrates not only on knowledge distribution, but on skill-building, on preparing learners to settle into an uncertain and constantly changing world. BIZ Experiencesial skill is one such skill that should be included in the school curriculum. A few of the other reasons why I believe BIZ Experiencesship should be encouraged in schools:

1. An article in the Hindu Business Line states that India has the third highest publicly listed family businesses in the world. Other researches estimate that 90% of Indian businesses from small mom-and-pop stores to large conglomerates are family-owned.

The seed of a family business is sown by an BIZ Experiences, who wants to break away from convention, who sees an opportunity that no one else has seen and is carried forward through generations by successive family members with a similar BIZ Experiencesial spirit. Most of our school going children are either born into such families or will go on to become BIZ Experiencess and thought leaders. There BIZ Experiencesial skills become essential life skills for them.

2. The Oxford Dictionary defines BIZ Experiencesship as — "The activity of setting up a business or businesses, taking on financial risks in the hope of profit."

While most people believe BIZ Experiencesship is an innate skill, aspects of BIZ Experiencesship can be learnt and the younger you start the process it becomes part of the child's thought process. Given the statistics, it is important that in a country like ours, we encourage and teach BIZ Experiencesship from a young age to our children.

It is important to encourage them to think of a product and take them through simulated environment where they can actually make it and market it, it gives them a flavour of what BIZ Experiencesship entails.

3. As an BIZ Experiences, one of the most important skills you need to have is ability to think positively and overcome problems without getting defeated by them. Schools should include problem-solving case studies, positive thinking and creative challenges so that children are able to think of their glass half-full.

4. BIZ Experiencesship has no age limit. Everyone believes that when you go to college, you can learn how to be an BIZ Experiences. But BIZ Experiencesship has no age limit — you can become an BIZ Experiences and come up with an idea, solution or a product even while you are in school. Schools that encourage BIZ Experiencesship are likely to create thought leaders whose creativity is limitless.

5. Children are naturally curious, encouraging them to ask questions, follow that curiosity and come up with solutions is important. When they decide to start their own venture or work with a firm, their curiosity and natural tendency to ask questions will often lead them to out of the box solutions.

6. It is important to encourage innovative thinking, in a world where routine work is soon going to be mechanised, people are going to make their mark if they are able to think creatively. BIZ Experiencess often have the ability to look at the same thing, but think of it differently.

Encouraging BIZ Experiencesship in schools does not mean that every child will become an BIZ Experiences. The essence is to inculcate values and skills that will help them no matter what they choose to become a sportsman, an artist, a professional, a business leader, a creator or an BIZ Experiences.