Dear Mr. President,
You amaze me every time! After reading your letter to the American people about the disastrous economic crisis, I felt a renewed sense of hope, as I always do after hearing or reading your words. You emanate hope as the sun emanates warmth. I was, and still am, proud that you have the courage to include education in your long list of steps to help our failing economy. Many people have doubted that this will improve job loss and recession, but I believe in education above all else. I believe that with a greater public education system, we can inspire more students to work to their full potential, and give them a safe-haven from the degrading effects of a failing economy. We can ensure that more students will be able to prepare themselves for the challenging job markets with a college education, one that they won't spend their entire paycheck on in years to come. We can give them a place where they don't need a checkbook to attain what they desire, where passion and hope for the future trump cynicism and failure. I find, in this place, a second home. I want you to know, Mr. President, that the most certain future we can build for this country is one that continues to grow and change, and this growth, this change, resides not in the capital building, but in the classroom.
Many thanks and much hope,
Hannah
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I think that some of the factors that have helped create this world-wide economic crisis are a result of a lack of education.
Many uneducated adults entrusted others with their financial futures (bad mortgages, get-rich-quick schemes, paper-based company profitability, etc.) and the combined effect started a domino-like collapse of many institutions.
Unfortunately, unraveling the Gordian Knot of bad decision-making, flawed oversight and take-the-money-and-run attitude will take generations to rectify.
Hopefully this mistake-based education will be powerful enough to direct our children down the correct lifetime path.
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