"Let me leave you with a simple message: Every time you walk through that classroom door, make it your mission to get a good education. Don't do it just because your parents, or even the president, tells you. Do it for yourselves for your future. And while you're at it, help a little brother or sister to learn ... Let me know how you're doing. Write me a letter -- and I'm serious about this one -- write me a letter about ways you can help us achieve our goals. I think you know the address."
Imagine! The president said that to millions of schoolchildren across this great land. That is government control! That has no place in the classroom! To ask them to succeed and set goals, to let him know how they're doing? That's going too far. That's none of the government's business! That's none of the president's business.
I wish President Barack Obama's speech had been banned from classrooms so our children could get on with their education without any control from government forces. Only then can they succeed.
Oops! Sorry. Those words were from President George H. W. Bush on Oct. 1, 1991, in a nationally televised broadcast.
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