“No matter what you want to do with your life I guarantee that you’ll need an education to do it. You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? You’re going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. You can’t drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You’ve got to work for it and train for it and learn for it.”
He said what?
“You’ll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our environment.”
Junior, cover your ears!
“You’ll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free. You’ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy.”
Who does this man think he is?
“We need every single one of you to develop your talents, skills and intellect so you can help solve our most difficult problems. If you don’t do that, if you quit on school you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country.”
That’s what President Obama told schoolchildren in a televised address Tuesday morning.
How dare the president of the United States stand before the schoolchildren of America, at least the ones who were allowed to watch Tuesday morning’s address, and encourage our youth to reach for their dreams and preach the importance of getting a good education. It’s brainwashing. It’s nonsense, many said.
Get over it.
We live in a polarized era of this great nation where even the thought of the president speaking to children sparks outrage among the masses, particularly the masses who did not vote for Barack Obama last November. Call it brainwashing if you will. Call it encouraging the youth into seeing things his way if you want.
But really, we have much greater issues to debate than Tuesday’s school address.
Future generations will watch as Republican and Democratic presidents address schoolchildren, and they should. The president is the figurehead of our nation and should have the respect of all regardless of party.
It’s time the people of our nation stop slamming everything a president does because of his political party and stop turning this nation into the Divided States of America.
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