Schooling and entrepreneurship can seem paradoxical. One teaches you to stay in line, one requires you to stand out. One caters for the slowest moving, one benefits the fastest paced. One looks at what has been, one imagines what could be.
Many successful entrepreneurs did badly at school or dropped out of college. The education system didn’t suit them or didn’t know how to handle them. Many college graduates move straight into a graduate job and stay in employment until retiring in their sixties or seventies, never considering entrepreneurship for their journey. They choose to toe the line, do what is expected of them and walk a well-trodden path, deliberately turning down options with higher perceived risk in favour of security and certainty.
