Read the following excerpt from President Obama's 2009 speech on education, and then write an objective summary of it in the space provided.

“Maybe you could be a great writer, maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a
newspaper - but you might not know it until you write that English class paper assigned to you.
Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor - maybe even good enough to come up with the
next iPhone or the new medicine or vaccine - but you might not know it until you do your project
for your science class. Maybe you could be a mayor or a senator or a Supreme Court justice - but
you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team.
And no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you'll need an education to do
it. You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse or an architect,
a lawyer or a member of our military? You're going to need a good education for every single one
of those careers. You cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You've got to train
for it and work for it and learn for it.
And this isn't just important for your own life and your own future. What you make of your
education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. The future of America depends
on you. What you're learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our
greatest challenges in the future.”