Video: What Adults Can Learn from Kids

From TED Talks Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs “childish” thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity and especially optimism. Kids’ big dreams deserve high expectations, she says, starting with grownups’ willingness to learn from children as much as to teach.

Video: College dropout turned entrepreneur

WordPress entrepreneur Matt Mullenweg says he loves being an entrepreneur instead of working for someone else, though he sometimes wishes he didn’t drop out of college.

Warren Buffett gives financial advice to Girl Scouts

Financial Guru Warren Buffett meets with an Omaha Girl Scout troupe at a local Dairy Queen to talk money. See what he has to say about college students and investing.

The Voice of the 21st Century Student is Speaking..are we Listening?

This guy is really amazing on so many levels and for so many reasons.  Dan Brown has put me in a state of Awe because of his Audacious Fearless Ambition.  He speaks the truth and speaks for our Youth.   Please listen up and open your minds and be aware that he is not the far and [...]

Educating the Entrepreneur starts in Iowa.

Educe…the word is Latin and implies the drawing out of or the bringing out of something… ‘potential.’  The word Educate derives from this Latin word Educe.  Interesting how we have known this for years yet need reminded.  Educating never truly meant to teach us the WAY or tell us the answer.  It just meant to lead us [...]

Kid Entrepreneur has web design business in his home.

Maryland high school senior and entrepreneur, Keenen Geter talks about his web design business. For more on youth entrepreneurs, watch Biz Kid$ (http://www.bizkids.com) a public TV series where kids teach kids about entrepreneurship.  Or visit the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship.

These Kids Mean Business: A PBS Documentary about Kids and Entrepreneurship

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Clarence Page looks at the role of entrepreneurship education as a way to help change the lives of at-risk youth. Check out this preview for the 60-minute PBS special:  These Kids Mean Business. I love his statement “The old thinking figured kids were too young to learn about entrepreneurship. The new thinking [...]

Crystal O’Connor Interviews Angela Maiers with Maiers Education Services

Turn a Spender into an Investor

By: Joann Kuster Seymour Author, Financial Educator Spending—rather than saving money—is a habit, especially for teens. According to surveys by Teenage Research Unlimited, the average teen has more than $104 a week to spend—five times more than their parents had. Yet, today’s teens are less savvy about money, and most haven’t learned what to do [...]

How are Millionaires Made? by Joann Seymour Kuster

Joann Seymour Kuster Author, Financial Educator Much of a young person’s paycheck withers away, because most haven’t learned to pay themselves first. Saving and investing is not a habit yet. But it can become one. Learn to pay yourself as much as you can –invest and grow a nest egg for later. You don’t know [...]

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