The Entrepreneurial Homeschool, Part 3

Part 1 and Part 2 covered self-regulation and abstract reasoning. The next layer is creating something other people want, then deciding whether it is worth creating. Part 3: Making Things Worth Wanting Math is the base, not the summit. Above problem-solving on paper sits a harder, more abstract problem: making something other people actually want. That pulls many other skills such as sales, distribution, marketing, and taste. So every day, alongside eating well, moving, and doing math, my kids also try to make things people want. And making something almost always means creating something. Art is not obedience We tend to file creating under art: singing, dancing, playing the piano, or painting. But playing a piece of Mozart exactly as your teacher instructed is not creating. It may teach technique, and technique matters, but technique is the base, not the summit. Art begins where the instructions end. Here in Singapore, a lot of what gets called art education is precisely that: doing…