A Successful Entrepreneur
This happened 7
years ago when I was teaching maths to a child with dyslexia. He hated math so
much that whenever I taught him percentages or ratio or any other concept in
class he would not respond properly and would never open his mouth when asked
questions.
Once I was teaching
children about sales and concepts related to it. To make this more interesting,
I took them for a field trip to a market area to give them an exposure about sales
and its practices and asked the children to present their own ideas in class
the next day. It was festival time and there was sale put up in a lot of shops.
The boy was very excited to be in such an ambience. He jumped in front of a
shopkeeper and questioned him about various strategies and ideas that he adopted
to attract customers. I was surprised with the amount interest he showed in learning
concept of sales. He did not stop there but went on to ask shopkeepers selling
different kinds of products. The next
day for presentation, he came up with a lot of ideas that amazed all of us in
school.
I started teaching the
concept of cost price, selling price and what a surprise he was the first one
to come up with the answers. He was alert throughout. When we went further deep
into the topic he started showing interest in learning percentages, decimals
etc. What difference did a small field trip make and we could integrate the
subject so well and it did make a big difference to his life too.
He is now
managing his father’s departmental store and is able to use all the strategies
that he learnt. Business runs in his blood as I would always tell him.
It was
just a little extra effort that I took to kindle the interest of the child,
which to my surprise, contributed for his wholesome development.
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