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Obama Tell The Nation's Students

Written by: Adeshola Afolabi

Article Overview: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 in a speech reminiscent of the challenges of entrepreneurship, president Obama admonished the young minds to never give up. Once again, president Obama has used his oratorical skill in finally quenched the fire that encapsulate his planned speech to the nation's student and stirred us all to challenge obstacles and actualize our goals. Obama told the students "Take responsibility and refuse to let failure define you"... The president affirmed "If you quit, you are not just quitting on yourself, you are quitting on your country".

Obama Tell The Nation's Students

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 in a speech reminiscent of the challenges of entrepreneurship, president Obama admonished the young minds to never give up.Once again, president Obama has used his oratorical skill infinally quenched the firethat encapsulate his planned speech to the nation's student and stirredus all tochallenge obstacles and actualize our goals. Obama told the students "Take responsibility and refuse to let failure define you"... The president affirmed "If you quit, you are not justquitting on yourself, you are quitting on your country". Despite the political gimmick that surround the president's speech, I quietly belief in the appropriate of the speech content to its targetedaudience. It is appalling that we now live in a world that mimic a heavy weight boxer that would throw in the towel before the contest has evenstarted. Or how else could we describe the resolution of students who gave upand called it quit at high school. Although, there are known sporadic success without a formal education, nonetheless we now live in a technocrat world that would obviously required much more literacy to navigate.

More so, thetheme of the president's speech invokedresiliency and transcends mere academic prowess. Most importantly, the president speech reminded the students and all of us that theposition of leadership that America occupies in the world, which coming generation are inheriting, was not secured by people who gave up but by those "who kept going when things are tough".

Today, many people remain saddle to the cubicle of their limited opportunities because they are afraid of confronting obstacles or merely due tothethe fear of failing. Thus the spirit of entrepreneurship, which is the bedrock of America's greatness, is vastly eroding as evidenced by staggering reduction in self owned businesses. Consequently, it is essential, as president Obama did today,to reawakened the value of entrepreneurshipand cautionthe leaders of tomorrow at their incipient, thatfailure is a normal way of life and a necessity for personal progress and advancement of human race. Therefore, we should not allow our destiny to be defined by failure as success is not an indication of lack of failing butan evidence of transformation that emerges fromtrials.

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