Public schools in the United States of America are not teaching people to be enterprising community leaders; habitually innovative, experimental, collaborative, or to think on different levels. They are teaching core subjects without the capitalistic, socially-minded application of these in a meaningful way that places the thinking of ordinary Americans in terms of what they can do for their country. But youth and young adults with limited opportunities lose hope when the educational support systems to empower them are not preparing them to be all that they can be. If school is not fun, it may be that the students don’t readily see how what they are learning can be appplicable. Social enterprising has to be threaded in from the very beginning. Not only does empathic capitalism create new economy, but it puts our thinking on making life better for each other. People become passionate when they think and feel like they can really better their own lives. Give people the tools. Social enterprising leaders, as said in prior essays, can be artists, teachers, musicians, engineers, mathematicians, business men and women, Moms and Dads, and brick and mortar laymen who want to do good in the towns they live in.
Economic disparity in America can be outflanked through the educational valuing of each person’s human potential. Give people knowledge and training on how to use their interests to create money, understand how it moves around the world, how they can make money as they go about engineering their enterprise and you create hope and passion. It begins in the hearts and minds of people who want to be and give more. This requires positive disruption, and it will require simple, yet seismic changes that prioritizes great educational investment in every American citizen. Empowerment to every single person—asking them to be responsible, enterprising caretakers. Love unto others is the ingredient that brings the power of continued caring. Money makes it all worthwhile as a time investment. Quick pivoting and auto-correcting to bring about practical changes in our educational system can be done.
We have to teach that every person matters and we have to tremendously increase the level of care we place on each human being in the United States of America. A new line of mighty American citizen leadership has to lead the way. This is not a complex solution:
- Teach financial literacy
- Support and teach social entrepreneurship as an application to people’s interests
- Repeat
Our country’s President, the Cabinet of Secretaries, and the rank and file administrators of school districts need to jumpstart an era of empathy to bring new life into America. The private industry can challenge government also with spearheading educational reform that dutifully clarifies a clear channel to students on the relevance of what they are studying in grade school. Learning has to be made practical and it must be easy for students even young children to see how the skills they are learning will translate into bankable tools later on in life.
Community-minded entrepreneurship places the perspective and energy of an individual on strengthening and sustaining the health of others and environment while that person reaps a living through the capitalization of the success of their endeavors. Financial literacy gives a language and understanding on how money and its investment works and flows on a local, national, and global level.
Begin.
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