Five Benefits of Entrepreneurship Education to Students

Did you know that students can take advantage of the benefits of entrepreneurship education even before they enter college?

An entrepreneurship-focused education can help middle and high-school age girls develop crucial life skills that will serve them well beyond the classroom walls.

In this article, we will share five benefits of entrepreneurship education to help you decide if it’s the right choice for your child’s future.

 

What Is Entrepreneurship Education?

Entrepreneurship education focuses on developing real-world skills that will help students to lead exceptional lives in a rapidly changing world.

Entrepreneurship education teaches students crucial life skills, such as:

• How to collaborate and work with a team
• How to speak in public and prepare an effective presentation
• How to collect and analyze data
• How to use social media as an advocacy tool
• How to solve real, complex problems that don’t have a definitive answer
• How to use curiosity and creativity to find an innovative approach to difficult problems

Students learn to understand the product development cycle, come up with their own unique business proposals, and deliver multiple pitch presentations.

This process results in a superior college prep experience that serves our students long after they've graduated high-school.

Entrepreneurship education does not just benefit those entering the fields of science, technology, and business.

Students of art, music, and humanities can develop their imagination and learn how to apply creative thinking skills to real-world problems.

 

Five Benefits of Entrepreneurship Education for Students

 

1. Prepare students for an uncertain future.

We live in an age of unprecedented global and technological transformation.

Today's students face an uncertain future full of complex global, social, and environmental issues.

According to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs survey, half of today's work activities could be automated by 2055, creating completely new roles, responsibilities, and challenges for the future workforce.

Therefore, we cannot predict exactly what our students will need to know after they graduate.

Entrepreneurship-focused programs teach students crucial life skills that will help them navigate this uncertain future.

These skills include problem-solving, teamwork, empathy, as well as learning to accept failure as a part of the growth process.

 

2. Leave room for creativity and collaboration.

As standardized testing has become more common in public schools, opportunities for students to innovate and collaborate with others have become more scarce.

Entrepreneurship education encourages creativity, innovation, and collaboration.

These attributes are highly valued by the top colleges in the world and will serve your child well beyond middle school and high school.

 

3. Teach problem identification.

Students need to learn how to identify problems before they learn how to solve them.

Problem-solving has been taught in schools for decades — but the same cannot be said for problem identification.

Traditionally, problem-solving is taught by presenting students with issues that are already clearly defined by someone else.

In the real world, problems can only be solved when they have been properly identified and described.

Entrepreneurship education teaches children to identify problems they have never encountered before — a skill that will be very useful in tomorrow’s world.

 

4. Develop grit.

In her bestselling book “Grit,” researcher and professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, Angela Duckworth states that “grit” may be the single most important factor in a person’s long term success.

Her research shows that grades, intelligence, and socioeconomic status do not stack up to the characteristic she defines as “grit.”

According to Duckworth, grit consists of passion and sustained persistence applied toward long-term achievement.

The demanding and uncertain entrepreneurship journey requires more passion and sustained persistence than most other activities.

This makes an entrepreneurship-focused program ideal for developing grit in your students.

 

5. Make the world a better place.

Entrepreneurs seek to solve problems, meet needs, and ease pain points with the help of their products and services.

They are hard-wired to make a difference and make the world a better place.

By participating in entrepreneurship programs, students don’t just become ready to create their own futures — they become ready to change the world.

 

Why Entrepreneurship Education is Important for Girls

While every student can benefit from entrepreneurship-focused education, girls (especially middle-school and high-school-age girls) stand to gain the most from it.

The underrepresentation of qualified women in leadership positions has created a gender gap that exists in almost every industry.

Entrepreneurship education lets girls develop their leadership skills, embrace their competitive side, and learn to take more risks.

It can be especially effective when practiced in a single-sex classroom setting, which lets girls explore their interests and passions in an environment free from gender stereotypes and social pressure.

 

Why Choose Marlborough

Marlborough is exclusively devoted to the education of young women. 

Weaving together engineering, digital arts, robotics, media, academic research, and entrepreneurship, the Shari and Ed Glazer Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Marlborough encourages academic excellence, leadership skills, and confidence.

Here at Marlborough, we don’t just teach girls to keep pace with the changing future.

Instead, we teach them to boldly pursue ideas which set the pace for the future.

 

Your Next Steps

There are numerous benefits to entrepreneurship education -- especially for young girls!

If you think an entrepreneurship-focused education could be the right choice for your child, there’s no better place to pursue it than the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Marlborough.

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