Where is the creative and personal leadership youth education?

To operate on a global platform one must be conversational in at the very least one language other than English.

Many North American colleges and universities have decided that they must create or improve their leadership training programs. Among the reasons why this change is needed are the many corporate ethical and criminal crises that these North American companies created in the last twenty years. Serious cultural changes are needed. We need a generation of people who can lead outside of business life. We need leaders in cultural life. There is much more to life than business. It is often acknowledged that the potential that lay with the youth must be recognized. Specifically the potential they have to become stellar leaders and ambassadors for good. Has anyone considered the necessity of beginning leadership training in elementary or middle school?

Why does personal leadership education wait until perhaps college level or high school?

The necessary competencies and training can take root, especially quickly in children. All people, but especially children must be taught the behavioral, communications and cooperative skills that are vital foundations to developing into a leader of merit. Why is this need rarely mentioned or acted on?

It is important to ask where children can be taught to be open-minded, a language other than English and behavioral values that are common to the world’s disparate and divided cultures. At which schools are children taught this and then tested with gradually more difficult small unit leadership exercises.

Is it a problem of overly simplistic thinking? Is it nihilism?

Most people know that the earlier a child begins studying a language, the quicker they’ll learn it and the more languages they can learn just as quickly. Toastmasters International has speech craft curricula that is provides to high schoolers. Do the Brownies and Cub Scouts have small unit leadership exercises to assess, challenge and motivate the children?

If Toastmasters International, the Brownies and others could be combined with language immersion classes and be brought to bear on the children, this country and its international relations would improve.

It is often acknowledged that it all begins at home. So can lessons in personal and creative leadership.