Murid
Shared on Mon, 09/07/2009 - 12:46The White House has released the text of the President's speech to school children tomorrow. Take the time to read it, decide for yourself whether your child should hear it, but for what it's worth, I would want my children to listen and would hope that they were inspired by what the President says. I think the Republic and our children will survive, and may be even better for it. In fact, I can't believe anyone would find this speech objectionable, if they read it, regardless of their political beliefs. (Well, maybe someone will object to his pejorative reference to Xbox.)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/
One passage that especially struck me as something parents should want their children to hear:
And even when you’re struggling, even when you’re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you – don’t ever give up on yourself. Because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country.
The story of America isn’t about people who quit when things got tough. It’s about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best.
It’s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and found this nation. Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; who fought for civil rights and put a man on the moon. Students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google, Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other.
So today, I want to ask you, what’s your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a president who comes here in twenty or fifty or one hundred years say about what all of you did for this country?
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