The Mad Rush to College Is Killing Our Children’s Entrepreneurial Spirit

I'm entirely sympathetic to the idea that intense focus on college admissions is bad for kids. But it's a little baffling to me to see the harm of this approach described as limiting of their "entrepreneurial spirit." Maybe I'm the weird one here, but I have never understood the notion that the quintessential object of human ambition or thriving is starting a business.

My wife and I have exactly two goals for our child. Those are for a) him to be happy and b) the world to be a better place for having him in it. That's it. We also realize he has hopes and dreams, so we work hard to instill in him an understanding of working your hardest, using your strengths, identifying your weaknesses, and being a good person.

Good grades and test scores are nice, and poor grades aren't a huge deal if they identify an area where more focus is required. The ARE a big deal if they're the result of lack of effort. I want him to go to college if what he wants to do in his life will be facilitated by that. I'm also a firm believer that college is what you make of it, not what it makes of you.

The mad rush to create startups is killing our children's....

Yeah, right. Look what it did to Gates and Zuckerberg.

> Liberals who want to make college free have good intentions, and there certainly was a time when a college degree offered the most reliable ticket to success. But times have changed. Today, plans for free college are threatening to make the next generation less entrepreneurial.

It is refreshing to see a well-thought out piece that doesn't demonize and ad hominem their opponent's position