Schools are a high-yielding ground for entrepreneurship beginnings
学校是创业教育高产的起点
子谦译文
"People look at entrepreneurship as a big, bold word – it doesn't need to be," and its incorporation in school curriculums is proving just that.
人们总是把‘创业’视为一个宏大或者大胆的词，其实大可不必，因为现在创业教育已经被纳入到了学校的课程里面，这一点就证明了它不是。
For most 80s and 90s high schoolers, entrepreneurship took the shape of "let's set up a plan that will generate us money so we can organize our own prom night." In fact, that was what most grade 12 students were preoccupied with then; a tradition of selling flowers or baked goods, throwing movie nights and charging for entrance + popcorn, or challenging creativity with other money-making ideas.
对大多数80、90年代的高中生来说，创业的形式就是：制定一个计划，让我们能赚到钱，这样我们就能组织自己的舞会了。事实上，这正是当时大多数学生所关注的，比如卖花或烘焙食品、举办电影之夜、售卖门票和爆米花，或挑战创意与其他赚钱的想法。
Come 2020, making profit is still on the mind of many youngsters, but the purpose behind the cash is now outgrowing it in priority. The youth of today is more aware of its entourage and is better prepared to face the obstacles standing in its way of reaching its goal, and that's due to education and technology.
即使到了2020年，盈利仍然是许多年轻人的心头之念，但是现在金钱背后的目的已经超过了它的优先地位。如今的年轻人更加了解他们的合作伙伴，也做好了面对实现其目标的道路上的障碍的准备，而这一切都要归功于教育和技术的发展。
With the multitude of advancements in the tech field, among others, numerous schools are becoming a hub for innovative minds and some breakthroughs. As more attention is invested in students and how to get them to explore their miscellaneous talents, skills are added to the equation to reveal wild potentials in those who many still regard as kids.
随着科技以及其他领域的重大进步，许多学校正在成为创新思维和一些突破口的中心。越来越多的人将注意力投入到学生身上，以及如何让他们发掘自己的各种才能和技巧，以揭示那些仍被许多人认为是孩子的人的疯狂的潜力。
We spoke to three women at the center of the entrepreneurship education in the Arab region to understand more how incorporating entrepreneurship in school curriculums can propel young minds towards making a valuable change.
因此，我们采访了阿拉伯地区创业教育中心的三位工作人员，以进一步了解将创业教育纳入到学校课程里面是如何推动年轻人的思想做出有价值的改变的。
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On entrepreneurship
关于创业教育
Helen Al Uzaizi, Director of Center of Excellence for Entrepreneurship, GEMS：
People look at entrepreneurship as a big, bold word – it doesn't need to be. It is in our every day life, it is a growth mindset, it is an action oriented mind-set, a driven character and a solution centric focus and all of these are skills that are relevant to everything in life. Employment, self-employment, social enterprise, family, education. The more you practice living with this mindset the more of a second nature it becomes and it applied [sic] to everything in life.
GEMS卓越创业中心主任，Helen Al Uzaizi：
人们总是把‘创业’当作一个宏大或者大胆的词汇——其实大可不必如此，因为它常见于我们的日常生活中。它是一种成长性思维，是一种以行动为导向的思维，一种驱动型的性格，一种以解决方案为中心的关注点，所有这些都是与生活相关的技能。就业、自主创业、社会企业、家庭、教育，你与这些思维生活的时间越久，它们就越会变成你的第二天性，并将应用于生活中的每一件事。
Najla Al Midfa, CEO, Sharjah Entrepreneurship Center "Sheraa"：
Entrepreneurship is a perse and collaborative discipline, allowing students the freedom to take any field they are interested in and enhance it with the pillars of entrepreneurship. That is not to say that other fields are not important; rather, they can all be complemented by entrepreneurial skills. With advancements in STEM, the humanities, and the arts – catalysed by advancements in technology and an increasingly globalized world – exploring entrepreneurship opens up opportunities for creativity and growth which positively feeds into an already fast-developing ecosystem.
沙迦创业中心，Sheraa公司CEO Najla Al Midfa：
创业教育是一门多元化和合作的学科，它允许学生自由选择他们感兴趣的任何领域，来把它当作创业教育的支柱来加以提升。当然，这并不是说其它领域不重要，而是说，它们都可以得到创业技能的补充。随着科技、人文和艺术的发展，以及日益全球化的世界，探索创业精神为创造力和成长提供了机会，而这些机会也为正在快速发展的生态系统提供了有利条件。
There is a constant need to keep up, to improve, and to regularly up skill oneself as automation eradicates some jobs and creates new ones. This demands new ideas, out-of-the-box solutions, and the ability to develop them with speed – all key qualities in an entrepreneur.
自动化技术淘汰了一些工作岗位，但同时又创造了新的岗位，因此我们需要不断地跟上、改进和提高自己的技能。这需要新的想法、开箱即用的解决方案，以及快速开发这种想法的能力——而这些都是创业者的关键素质。
The most creative breakthroughs come from an interdisciplinary approach, and with entrepreneurship now being taught at a much younger age, we can expect the next generation to be focused on being adaptive and impactful. Entrepreneurship will always remain open to everyone hailing from any background, any field, and any age, making it a critical part of an economy's growth and flexibility."
而最具创造性的突破来自于跨学科的方法。随着创业教育在更年轻的年龄阶段的人得到传授，我们可以预期下一代将更专注于适应性和影响力。创业教育将始终对任何背景、任何领域、任何年龄的人开放，使其成为经济增长和灵活性的关键组成部分。”
Deema Bibi, CEO, INJAZ：
Entrepreneurship is essential not only to boosting job creation, but to create innovative and new solutions to existing, complicated local and global challenges. Governments are realizing the importance of creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem for achieving sustainable economic growth, which is a main reason why entrepreneurship education is becoming one of the most important topics for many education systems today.
INJAZ公司CEO Deema Bibi：创业教育不仅对于创造就业机会至关重要，而且对现有的、复杂的地方性和全球性挑战提供创新的解决方案也至关重要。各国政府已经认识到创建一个创业生态系统对于经济实现可持续增长的重要性，这也是为什么创业教育正成为当今许多教育系统最重要的课题之一的主要原因。
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On the benefits of incorporating entrepreneurship in school curriculums and its effects on the world's economy
将创业教育纳入学校课程的好处及其对世界经济的影响
Al Uzaizi："To start with, entrepreneurship is something that is easily embedded without the need to fully change programs, curriculums as it can be taught through a project based learning approach. Secondly, I believe that all children are born entrepreneurs – if you think about the skills children have and portray when they are young, the negotiation, the shopping play, the lemonade stands – it becomes clear that these are traits that need to be honed and developed rather than taught from scratch.
Al uzaizi：首先，创业教育是一种很容易嵌入的东西，不需要完全改变项目或者课程，因为它可以通过基于项目的学习方法来教受。其次，我相信所有的孩子都是天生的创业者——如果你仔细想想孩子们年轻时所具备的技能，比如他们的谈判、购物游戏、摆柠檬水摊卖东西等等，你就会明白，这些特质只需要加以磨练和发展即可，而不需要从零开始教受。
According to a report by Dell Technologies, 85% of the jobs in 2030 have not been invented yet. Knowing this means that what we need to be able to prepare our children for is not specific jobs or tasks, rather skills needed to navigate the fast changing world. Adapting and evolving is going to be key and if we focus on traditional learning tools and methodologies, we'll be doing the future generation a disservice. Our task at this junction is to prepare them to create their own jobs, their own future, be innovative and agile so that even if one was to go down the traditional path of employment or career choice, those with an entrepreneurial mind-set will thrive and excel as opposed to someone with a limited view."
戴尔公司的一份报告显示，从现在到2030年，85%的工作还没有被开发出来。知道了这一点，就意味着我们需要为我们的孩子做的准备不是特定的工作或任务，而是驾驭这个快速变化的世界所需要的技能，适应和进化将是关键。如果我们把重点放在传统的学习工具和方法上，我们将给未来的一代带来伤害。我们目前的任务是让他们做好准备，创造自己的工作、自己的未来，变得具有创新精神和灵活性，这样，即使走上了传统的就业道路，那些具有创业思维的人与视野有限的人相比，也更能茁壮成长、出类拔萃。
Al Midfa："Embedding entrepreneurship across all levels of education is vital to ensure students are prepared to navigate through the rapidly evolving work environment. Entrepreneurship helps prepare the next generation for a job market that will look drastically different from the one we know today. It isn't just about teaching students the basics of building a business, but rather about teaching portable skills – entrepreneurial spirit, creativity, pergent thinking, adaptability, and resilience – that will serve them regardless of what career they choose.
Al Midfa：将创业教育融入各级教育，对于确保学生准备好适应快速变化的工作环境至关重要。创业教育有助于下一代为就业市场做准备，那时的就业市场将与我们今天所熟知的截然不同。这不仅仅是教学生创建企业的基本知识，也是教他们便携式技能——创业精神、创造力、发散思维、适应能力和韧性——无论他们选择什么职业，这些技能都会终生为他们服务。
Mindset also plays a massive role in anyone's entrepreneurial ability, which is why it is so important to start embedding the right culture early on. We must teach the youth from a young age that it is safe to experiment and to fail, and that they should use those failures as learnings rather than be ashamed by them. By doing so, we are better able to build a generation of bold, resilient changemakers who are empowered to take the future into their own hands, and who will be armed with life-long qualities such as confidence, communication, and collaboration skills."
思维模式对于个人的创业能力也起着重要作用，这就是为什么从早期就开始植入正确的文化是如此重要。我们必须从小教育青年，让他们知道尝试和失败是安全的，他们应该把失败当作学习，而不是为失败感到羞愧。通过这样做，我们能够更好地培养一代勇敢、有韧性的变革者，他们有能力掌控未来，他们终身都将拥有自信、沟通和协作技能等这些素质。”
Bibi："Bridging the gap of knowledge, skills and behavioral attitudes related to entrepreneurship is essential to any economy as it is the main engine that builds MSME's that drive the economy forward. The integration of entrepreneurship education in primary and secondary schools is the most efficient and effective way to reach the population on a scale broad enough to improve the required knowledge, skills and habits and foster an entrepreneurial mindset of future entrepreneurs, business leaders and intrapreneurs.
Bibi：弥补与创业教育有关的知识、技能和行为态度之间的差距，对任何经济体都至关重要，因为它是构建中小企业、推动经济前进的主要引擎。将创业教育融入中小学课程是最高效和最有效的方法，因为这样可以在足够广泛的范围内接触到民众，提高他们所需的知识、技能和习惯，并培养未来创业者、商业领袖和内部创业者的创业思维。
Youth are increasingly becoming consumers of commercial and financial products at an earlier age and are developing financial habits that will remain with them into adulthood. Financial and entrepreneurship education has never been so relevant and yet so disregarded and as parents and families are largely unprepared to teach sound financial habits to their children, it is the responsibility of the educational system to provide that guidance and education.
年轻人越来越早地成为商业和金融产品的消费者，并且养成了将伴随他们直到成年的理财习惯。金融和创业教育从未如此重要，但却如此被忽视，再加上家长和家庭基本上没有准备好教育子女养成良好的理财习惯，因此教育系统有责任提供这种指导和教育。
An additional benefit of a national school-based approach to entrepreneurship education is the way in which it can impact our communities on a larger scale and uniquely develop a healthy and sound financial culture and entrepreneurial mindset in the rest of the population. It is widely recognized that youth are effective disseminators of new information and new habits, not only to their peers but also to their siblings and their families."
以学校为基础的全国创业教育方法的另一个好处是，它能够对我们的社区产生更大的影响，并且在人群中培养一种健康的、健全的金融文化和创业思维。人们普遍认识到，青年是新信息和新习惯的有效传播者，不仅会传播给他们的同龄人，也会传播给他们的兄弟姐妹和家人。
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On entrepreneurial programs' success stories
创业项目的成功故事
Al Uzaizi：We have students who have developed fully functional companies, have raised funding and even one student who has been offered to have his company bought for close to 6 figures ."
Al Uzaizi：我们有学生建立了功能齐全的公司，也筹集到了相应的资金，甚至还有一个学生，有人出接近6位数的价格收购他的公司，但是被他拒绝了！
Al Midfa：Khalid Al Awar won Sheraa's Startup Weekend in 2018 with Mabany, a startup that connects facility management companies with their residents, enhancing communications, automating processes and providing insights on the data collected. He then got accepted into Draper University in Silicon Valley and was sponsored by Sheraa to attend their Hero Training program. Al Awar went on to study a Masters in Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology at the University of Waterloo and now works at Astrolabs as a Business Development Lead."
Al Midfa：Khalid Al Awar凭借Mabany公司，赢得了Sheraa公司2018年的创业周末奖。Mabany是一家连接设施管理和社区居民的公司，主要提供加强通信，自动化流程和数据收集与分析的创业公司，最后Al Awar被硅谷的德雷珀大学录取，并在Sheraa公司的赞助下，参加他们的英雄培训计划。接着Al Awar继续在滑铁卢大学攻读商学、创业学和技术学硕士学位，现在在astrolabs公司担任业务发展主管。
Bibi：This story is related to one of GOAL program students at Rufaidah Al-Aslamiah Primary School for Girls. Zaina is an 8th grader at Rufaidah Al-Aslamiah Primary School for Girls and one of GOAL program students. Her family is suffering from some financial issues and Zaina always wanted to help them.
Bibi：这个故事与Rufaidah Al-Aslamiah女子中学的一个目标项目学生有关。Zaina是这所学校的一名八年级学生，也是目标项目的学生之一。她的家庭正在遭受一些经济问题，而Zaina一直想帮助她的家庭。
During Goal sessions, Zaina's teacher, Ms. Lina, explained to the students the third module of Goal program . She pided the students inside the classroom into groups and each group was encouraged to put a plan to save money from the daily allowance and then come up with an idea for a group project. Zaina and her classmate decided to work on a small project.
在目标课程中，Zaina的老师Lina女士向学生们解释了目标课程的三个模块，然后她把学生们分成若干个小组，每个小组都被鼓励制定一个从每日津贴中省钱的计划，最后再提交一个小组项目的想法。Zaina和她的同学决定实施这个小项目。
First, they attended a workshop of wool spinning and learnt how to manufacture clothes using wool. They saved some money from their daily allowance as the teacher taught them and they bought materials to start their small project. They started by selling their products of hats, baby dresses and jackets to friends and relatives, and they earned a profit from doing that.
首先，她们参观了一个毛纺车间，并学会了如何用羊毛制作衣服；接着用老师教给她们的方法从每日津贴中省出一些钱，用来购买材料，然后开始他们的这个项目。她们向亲戚朋友出售帽子、婴儿服装和夹克衫等产品，并从中获利。
Now, their products are having a good reputation among their friends and relatives and they are looking forward to improve and expand their project. Zaina was so glad that she managed to financially support her family."
现在，她们的产品在亲戚朋友当中享有良好的声誉，她们也期待着能改进和扩大她们的项目。Zaina很高兴，因为她终于可以在经济上帮助她的家庭了……
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