The President

Today in many schools across the nation we had to watch The President give a speech about how important education is. I am one of the many students who works hard on a daily basis. The speech was just things I had heard my parents tell me, except it came from the president. There are many students that do not work as hard as I do an there are probably many that work harder.

I think that working hard is important, because without hard workers the country would fall to pieces. The president spent timeout of his busy schedule to talk to kids about this problem. That is a horrible thing happening to my generation. Laziness is sweeping the nation and infecting hundreds of kids. This is something everyone should be wary of because technology is only increasing the ability to be lazy.

In chemistry I watched my teacher light magnesium on fire. It was very bright and shocked many of the students. What shocked them further was when he dropped the burning magnesium piece onto the lab bench and started whacking it with tongs. The class was in an uproar. I thought that this would be nice to share because it showed how even teachers make mistakes sometimes and their little mistakes may stick with us forever.

I hope that at my fiftieth reunion I can go up to someone who was in our class and say, "Remember when the burning magnesium fell onto the lab bench?" If I can do this then I know that I learned that magnesium was combustible and so If I light something on fire and it burns like that ... that well it is magnesium.

I love it when teachers learn something new from students. In history today Whelihan said something that the teacher didn't know. It shows that even though our generation is lazy, we are still able to learn and grow, even to surpass our teachers to some extent.

I noticed that many students now a days complain about how they will never use the things they are learning right now in high school in their day to day lives. This may be true right now because if I grow up to be a scientist then I won't need to know how to write a shakespearian sonnet, but sometimes in high school we are learning how to learn. We are learning how to learn the things we WILL need in for our jobs.

Everyday people need to learn and everyday people need to take a step away from the lazy life we seem destined for. If we can do that, then anything is possible.