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January 24, 2012
Breeding the next Steve Jobs
This is priceless. The dimwits at CNN are trying to figure out "How to Raise the next Steve Jobs". This would be roughly equivalent to trying to "Raise the next Secretariat". Most of it is in the genes, obviously. You can't take a farm horse to the track and "teach" it to be a racehorse. That's not reality.
But looking past the genes, the public school system is a dismal failure from start to finish. Basically, the current plan is that you shove everyone through a "no-child-left-behind" (aka "no-child-gets-ahead") public school regimen of 12 years of their life and then you wonder where the gems are.
If you honestly think that unionized public sektor employees can teach individualism to students then you're sadly mistaken.
The way to raise the next Steve Jobs is to dismantle the public school system. You have to stop trying to teach Algebra to 14 year old girls. You have to stop focusing your attention on the bottom 20% of the students, and focus your efforts on the top 20%.
If you stopped trying to teach 14 year old girls Algebra, you would be going a step in the right direction. It's not that they can't learn it. It's that there's no reason to learn it.
The correct way to raise the next Steve Jobs would be to keep them in regular school for say 1/2 of the day. Learn to interact socially. That's important.
Then, for the other half of the day, pull all of the geniuses aside and ask them what they want to work on. Help them bring ideas to fruition. Products to market. Teach them how to make things. How to start businesses. Yeah. Business school. The process of bringing a product to market.
Then you'd have some kids coming out of school ready to hit the ground running. You could easily have children that were millionaires, if you'd just get the stupid public school system out of the way.
Posted by Rob Kiser on January 24, 2012 at 1:50 PM
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