Yankees338
Bronze Contributor
Good thread. I agree with everyone who's stated that they're just grooming employees.
However, I wouldn't be a part of this forum or as enlightened about the world of investing if it wasn't for one of my teachers. I had his two years in a row for Intro to Business and then Entrepreneurship. While both classes just taught the very basics, they still offered something of value such as balance sheets and income statements as well as how to balance a checkbook. My teacher was a very cool guy, probably the nicest teacher in the school. He was extremely laid back and didn't discipline like many other teachers. I doubt this was his intent, but I think that attitude helped encourage an entrepreneurial mentality as opposed to the disciplined worker mentality. Anyway, he recommended we all read Rich Dad, Poor Dad at the beginning of our Entrepreneurship course. I was probably the only student who followed his recommendations, but I'm surely glad I did. Since the classes were electives, most people didn't care about them. Those that did only did so because they were "good students". I truly enjoyed the classes because they actually offered quite a bit of useful info for what I intended on doing.
This year (I'm now a Junior in High School), I'm taking AP Economics. It's a college level course, but it covers both micro- and macro-economics. So far, it seems like the kids taking this class with me are just doing it for grades (AP classes are weighted and help GPA). I do it for the learning itself and because it interests me, but it seems like I'm getting more toward the analytical side of things, which encourages more of a job path.
This is semi-unrelated, but yesterday, as my history class was ending, one of my friends whipped out his iPhone. This class was a standard class and most of my friends in it who I was with are the "popular kids with money", so they're mainly not too motivated in school. They like to joke around and have a good time. Anyway, when he took out his iPhone, he went online and the first thing that popped up were stock quotes. This lead to a discussion about stock investing with about 3 friends of mine and myself. They were talking about how they had actually invested in a few stocks, which truly shocked me, and we actually wound up having a pretty good discussion about it. I was really surprised to hear that such things interested them.
Btw, I live in a very affluent town and community where most people reside in the upper class. Therefore, they learn a lot of this from their parents who invest or own a business. Anyway, I found this very interesting. Hope you all did too.
However, I wouldn't be a part of this forum or as enlightened about the world of investing if it wasn't for one of my teachers. I had his two years in a row for Intro to Business and then Entrepreneurship. While both classes just taught the very basics, they still offered something of value such as balance sheets and income statements as well as how to balance a checkbook. My teacher was a very cool guy, probably the nicest teacher in the school. He was extremely laid back and didn't discipline like many other teachers. I doubt this was his intent, but I think that attitude helped encourage an entrepreneurial mentality as opposed to the disciplined worker mentality. Anyway, he recommended we all read Rich Dad, Poor Dad at the beginning of our Entrepreneurship course. I was probably the only student who followed his recommendations, but I'm surely glad I did. Since the classes were electives, most people didn't care about them. Those that did only did so because they were "good students". I truly enjoyed the classes because they actually offered quite a bit of useful info for what I intended on doing.
This year (I'm now a Junior in High School), I'm taking AP Economics. It's a college level course, but it covers both micro- and macro-economics. So far, it seems like the kids taking this class with me are just doing it for grades (AP classes are weighted and help GPA). I do it for the learning itself and because it interests me, but it seems like I'm getting more toward the analytical side of things, which encourages more of a job path.
This is semi-unrelated, but yesterday, as my history class was ending, one of my friends whipped out his iPhone. This class was a standard class and most of my friends in it who I was with are the "popular kids with money", so they're mainly not too motivated in school. They like to joke around and have a good time. Anyway, when he took out his iPhone, he went online and the first thing that popped up were stock quotes. This lead to a discussion about stock investing with about 3 friends of mine and myself. They were talking about how they had actually invested in a few stocks, which truly shocked me, and we actually wound up having a pretty good discussion about it. I was really surprised to hear that such things interested them.
Btw, I live in a very affluent town and community where most people reside in the upper class. Therefore, they learn a lot of this from their parents who invest or own a business. Anyway, I found this very interesting. Hope you all did too.
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