“Response to President Obama.”

On Tuesday, President Barack Obama said the following in his State of the Nation Address to Congress:“In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite. It is our responsibility as lawmakers and as educators to make this system work. But it is the responsibility of every citizen to participate in it. So tonight, I ask every American to commit to at least one year or more of higher education or career training. . . . And dropping out of high school is no longer an option. It's not just quitting on yourself, it's quitting on your country – and this country needs and values the talents of every American. These education policies will open the doors of opportunity for our children. But it is up to us to ensure they walk through them. In the end, there is no program or policy that can substitute for a parent – a mother or father who will attend those parent/teacher conferences, or help with homework after dinner, or turn off the TV, put away the video games, and read to their child. I speak to you not just as a president, but as a father when I say that responsibility for our children's education must begin at home.” -President Barack Obama, 2/24/09Well this quote is very insparattional because we do need are knowledge and it is a very valuable skill you can have in this world.We need education to get us gown to path to something good in this world not just getting thru highschool and then we will be at Mc Danolds flipping burgers a taking french fries out of an greaser for the rest of our life. When hew says an good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity it is a prerequisite that meanse that an education just is not going to help you you have to look for it out of the text book you have to know knowledge that is not in a book.