Written by As the business sector has been revolutionized by the net during the last 10 to 15 years making companies are struggling and even failing to adjust.
Having contemplated over failure and decline of many notable businesses in the recent past, I have concluded the reason is education.
Today’s kids are still being taught the French tongue in high-school. Now consider the biggest and swiftest growing economies in the world today. We’ve got the Chinese and Indian markets. So why do we teach French? Would teaching and learning Chinese or Mandarin not be a business catalyst for our country? Learning To speak French on the other hands, is helpful for vacation except for tiny else.
In the future the new generation shall have to trade and do more business with China yet our awareness of their culture and language is highly low.
Also consider that many subjects such as physical education, art, geographic and home economics are continuing to be taught and taken as classes by youths.
Why are we not teaching teens elementary skills such as buying and selling or about margins and markets. I was on a train journey latterly and chatted to a trained accountant in London who informed me that even today’s finance folk have a poor grip on basic arithmetic and can’t process multiplication and division without the aid of a calculator.
Why are our kids not taught more on the use of PCs or basic computer languages such as html. Every internet marketer will make it plain that the key to managing a solid site or online business is continually adding content to a dynamic site.
Maybe the recreational use of PCs, iPhone and Blackberry telephones will evolve into these types of abilities. Or at the very least I hope so.
The world really is going through enormous revolution and if our youngsters are the future of our own domestic economy then we need to put the right stakes in the ground as far as education is concerned.
Training and teaching our kids for the 21st century is not too much to ask for.
Molly Jamieson writes for Adobe Business Catalyst partner Platonik. Their internet site features examples of online shops using Adobe Business Catalyst.
