Creating risk takers

While reading about an interaction between Thomas Friedman and the prince of Bahrain in "Hot, Flat and Crowded" (written by Thomas Friedman), it intrigued me as to what would be an ideal school to create a pool of entrepreneurs. It would probably be a school where children are taught to take risks and fail, where they are first allowed to experiment and do things on their own before they are taught the theory. May be the children could have a class to write poetry, to read novels, to see TED presentations.

In order to build a society of free thinkers and free wheeling tinkerers we need to start looking into the way we impart education. How do you teach risk taking and failure in school?

By the way here is a clip where Dov Seidman is in conversation with Thomas Friedman. Dov is the founder and CEO of LRN.