Repost.. turned into one essay.

I am all for a president actually taking the time to promote education. It is something they all speechify about during campaigns but then forget about while in office. One of the reasons our elected officials are as bad as they are is that the voters are as proudly ignorant as they are.

We live in a culture where if Mike Tyson said “I could probably whup you” the average American would surely agree. But if Albert Einstein dared to even hint that he might be smarter or know more, then the average American would get furious about “who does that Einstein think he is!”

How dare Einstein think he knows more than you!

We have no respect for education in this society. It is seen only as a drudgery and a means to a financial end by most Americans, who are happy to discount any fact that they do not like. Americans rarely let facts get in the way of justifying themselves.

If Obama gets just one kid to study harder because of this, he deserves a great deal of praise.

If it is just more of the political nonsense then he is no different from the rest. As to what is said in those 15 minutes, I am certain it will be a rousing story of how he personally saw education as important and how his education helped him to become the president.

The message that if you study hard and work hard you could be president used to be the core of American values.

It is a very conservative view of mine that we go back to those values.