01/09/2026
ENTREPRENEURSHIP SHOULD START IN PRIMARY SCHOOL
Not because every child should grow up to start a business.
Because primary-aged children are already extraordinarily entrepreneurial.
Give a child a cardboard box and they see a shop, a spaceship, a theatre, a hotel, a machine or something adults have not even thought of yet.
They invent.
They negotiate.
They persuade.
They swap.
They organise.
They solve problems.
They change the rules when the rules stop working.
Then, somewhere along the educational journey, we begin teaching them to look for the correct answer rather than asking whether they can create a better one.
Entrepreneurship education should begin while imagination is still expansive, not after children have spent years learning to constrain it.
And it should be practical.
Give them ยฃ5.
Give them a problem.
Give them materials.
Give them a market.
Let them create something somebody actually wants.
Let them work out what it costs, what it is worth and whether anybody will buy it.
That is mathematics, communication, creativity, resilience, collaboration and decision-making brought together in one real experience.
Children do not need lectures about entrepreneurship.
They need opportunities to practise being enterprising before somebody teaches the ingenuity out of them.
Where learning begins with being.
Because being is enough.
