Every single one of you has something you're good at. Every
single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to
yourself to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an education can
provide.
Maybe you could be a good writer
– maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper – but you
might not know it until you write a paper for your English class. Maybe you could
be an innovator or an inventor – maybe even good enough to come up with the
next iPhone or a new medicine or vaccine – but you might not know it until you
do a project for your science class. Maybe you could be a mayor or a Senator or
a Supreme Court Justice, but you might not know that until you join student
government or the debate team.
And 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.
And this isn't just important
for your own life and your own future. What you make of your education will
decide nothing less than the future of this country. What you're learning in
school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest
challenges in the future.
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. 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.
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.
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