Obama Tell The Nation's Students

Despite the political gimmick that surround the president's speech, I quietly belief in the appropriate of the speech content to its targeted audience. 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 even started. Or how else could we describe the resolution of students who gave up and 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, the theme of the president's speech invoked resiliency and transcends mere academic prowess. Most importantly, the president speech reminded the students and all of us that the position 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 to the the 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 entrepreneurship and caution the leaders of tomorrow at their incipient, that failure 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 but an evidence of transformation that emerges from trials.