At 09:40 AM 21/01/2016, Tom Worthington wrote: >A start-up project as part of education, I suggest, is a useful learning >experience so the students can experience failure in a safe environment.
We did this in high school back in the 60s and 70s in my little midwest US town. It was called 'distributed education'. I don't know what it means either. But essentially, groups of students ran a small business. I don't remember much about it except that I didn't enjoy it and we packaged, priced and sold what was essentially rolls of cling film when that was not a normal part of life. I guess there are no new ideas under the sun, just rehashing old ones that have been forgotten. This celebration of 'start-ups' is one of those. Jan I write books. http://janwhitaker.com/?page_id=8 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [email protected] Twitter: <https://twitter.com/JL_Whitaker>JL_Whitaker Blog: www.janwhitaker.com Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. ~Margaret Atwood, writer _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
