Edie Lush

Schools for Whizzkids

Edie G. Lush asks whether the skills of starting and running your own successful business can be taught in the classroom or only acquired through real-life experience

Playing the violin can be taught. Heart surgery can be taught. Entrepreneurship can be taught.

Doug Richard, serial entrepreneur and chairman of the Conservative Party Small Business Task Force

You can’t teach entrepreneurship in the traditional sense, but there is clear evidence it can be learned.

Baroness Shritti Vadera, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Competitiveness

If entrepreneurship can’t be taught, or for that matter learned, someone needs to tell Doug Richard and Shriti Vadera. They may have slightly different messages, but they speak for different aspects of a movement to encourage entrepreneurship more widely in Britain.

This was written for Spectator Business , which you can Download