Houston Speaking Event 2-25-15 Part 1

you know life wasn't all that great and I was a terrible student so I thought that I want to be a doctor in the kind of student that I was they just didn't quite match in

fact my nickname with dummy that's what people call me and and they love having me in the classroom because no one ever had to worry about getting the lowest mark on a test as long as I was there I

was what's known as the safety net but I didn't I didn't like it very much but you know I was kind okay

the you're going to learn and you kind of tune out you don't even pay attention and it becomes a self fulfilling program

when that half no education this it's critical and fan it is the great divide in our society today

you can take anybody from any background any ethnicity and you give them a good education and

they can write their own took and we have got to begin to emphasize that people once again you know a lot

of ours fixity the public school system is not turning out what it should be three and yet private

schools home school charter schools much higher graduation rates college matriculation why

are the big city mayors and city councils grabbing hold of that and making sure that

has over billion India has over a billion we can't afford to waste any of ours we need to get all of them well educated and

we need to be able to look at the data that shows what is working and we need to take advantage of that they that's

we don't seem to know what to do we allow ourselves to be driven by ideology and special interests rather than by facts and

and that's just what they were doing country what kind of clothes you shit where we should be hanging out with and

I got caught up in all that stuff and I went from a student to appease the to assist the my grades kept fumbling I

that the trickster the sometimes I'm Walkin around people sell you limping I should know laughter residual Detroit struck and

affected by the peer pressure going right down the tubes like everybody else there I was asking her for close she

floors cleaning toilets doing with everybody else didn't want to and they give you the money want you to pay the bills and

by the food and take care of all the subsidies and with all the money left over you by all the fancy clothes you I

I ran out a long time before I came close and I realized at that moment that my mother with her third grade education was

realize that I was a fool and I made up my mind that I would pursue the way of fools anymore and I redoubled my efforts in no time it was the eighth and

school in the guys that my they will call me nerd Poindexter uncle Tom all kinds of things but you know what I

would always shut them up by saying one thing house Himitsu and I'm doing twenty years and that's when you're doing a twenty and

they must believe me because when I graduated from high school all those people who call me names voted me most likely to succeed which

means they knew what was necessary to succeed they were too lazy and trifling the two of them and that's a very important lesson that we need to teach to our young people don't