Leading Entrepreneurship Education-Based Primary Schools Suryaman Universitas PGRI Adi Buana Surabaya, Indonesia mama_suryaman58@yahoo.co.id Hari Karyono Universitas PGRI Adi Buana Surabaya, Indonesia harikaryana@yahoo.com Abstract: This research described how to design a leading school based on entrepreneurship. Leading schools are the hope of the community who care about education. In the global era, graduates of educational institutions are also expected to succeed in facing the challenges of the era. The problem was how to describe a leading school based on entrepreneurship. The research employed a descriptive qualitative method. The research site was at a primary school, namely SD Pembangunan Jaya 2 Sidoarjo. The results showed that the indicators developed in the curriculum of entrepreneurship included the values of: creative, innovative, independent, value added, dare to risk, and able to see opportunities. Based on the results of research it can be concluded that the leading school should have a supporting factor, based on entrepreneurship education.Based on the results of research it is suggested that at the time of implementation of learning activities teachers should carefully consider the learning strategies that would be implemented in entrepreneurship education. Keywords: design, leading school, enterpreneur I. INTRODUCTION Someone who has an entrepreneurial spirit is those whose personality has internalized entrepreneurial values, i.e. personality that has creative action as value, fond of trying, tough in various challenges, confident, have self-determination, or locus of control, be able to manage risks, a change is viewed as an opportunity, tolerance of various choices, initiative and possessing need for achievement, perfectionism, broad-mindedness, thinking that time is valuable and strongly motivated, and that character has all been internalized as values believed to be true (Kuratko, 2003). In fact the government has promoted entrepreneurship, but the efforts have not had a significant impact (Mulyani, 2011). Presidential Instruction No. 4 of 1995 on the National Movement of Socializing and Culturing Entrepreneurship, mandated to the entire community and the nation of Indonesia to develop entrepreneurial programs. Entrepreneurship is one's passion, attitude, behavior and abilities in handling business and/or activities that lead to the searching, creating, applying of new ways of working, technology and products by improving efficiency in order to provide better service and/or gain more considerable benefits. Indonesia's high purchasing power, abundant demographic bonuses and large markets are Indonesia's opportunities to grow and prosper. This makes entrepreneurship an appropriate and promising choice in increasing revenue and contributing a great value to the growth of the country’s economy. Demographic bonuses will not be demographic bills if this potential is developed and put to good use (Setiowati, 2015). According to Asnawi (2012), a State will achieve prosperity if there are not less than 2% of the nation/state population to become entrepreneurs. Singapore has only 7% and the United States 11%. While in Indonesia it is estimated to be around 400 thousands or only 0.18%. Therefore, it should continue to be driven by young entrepreneurs who are expected to contribute to the prosperity of the State. In essence, entrepreneurship education has the following values: honest, disciplined, hard work, creative, innovative, independent, responsibility, cooperation, leadership, unyielding, dare to risk, commitment, realistic, curiosity, communicative, powerful motivation for success, and action-oriented. Wiyatno (2009) has suggested that entrepreneurs as someone who dares to take risks, smell business opportunities, and able to utilize resources effectively and efficiently to gain profit.Therefore, education is an instrument that is considered most effective to instill entrepreneurial values.This is in accordance with the statement of Kourilsky & Walstad (1998) suggesting that the influence of entrepreneurship education has been considered as an important factor to cultivate and develop entrepreneurial passion, soul and entrepreneurial behavior among the younger generation. Entrepreneurship is often seen as a way of life (Gibb, 1998). Much of the literature on entrepreneurship focuses on the person, characteristic and quality of an entrepreneur. The development of 'spirit' is often seen as important and as the main criterion for deciding who chooses entrepreneurship and becomes successful in that field (Tolentino, 1998). Although Mintzberg (1990) notes that the literature on the characteristics and quality of entrepreneurs is hardly based on empirical evidence, there is still much research. Sudrajat (2011) argued that until now the concept of entrepreneurship is still growing. As also stated by Asnawi (2012) that entrepreneurs always look for change, respond, and use it as an opportunity. Schools as educational institutions should not only focus on the development of children's intellectual intelligence, but also focus on developing a child's character or personality in line with the national education goals. Damsar (2011) argues that schools are one of the socialization agencies that play a role in shaping knowledge, attitudes, values, norms, essential behaviors and hopes of being able to participate effectively in society. Through education that takes place in schools, it is expected to be born generations who have strong character to be able to compete in the era of globalization. Elementary school is a schooling time for children of 7-12 years old. It relates to the development 3rd International Conference on Education and Training (ICET 2017) Copyright © 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 128 135