▣ The importance of Education
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Who is Sonia Sotomayor?
Judge Sotomayor is the latest example of
"yes you can".
A Puerto Rican, raised by her widowed mother in a South Bronx public housing project. Her father, who never learned to speak English, died when she was 9 years of age, and at that time Sonia Sotomayaor was diagnosed with diabetes. Her mother, whom Judge Sotomayor describes as her biggest inspiration, worked six days a week to care for her two children. She instilled the value of EDUCATION. Sotomayor graduated summa cum laude from Princeton, and went on to attend Yale law schol. Her younger brother is a Physician.
President Obama announced his choice after considering many candidates. The President, having himself overcome all odds in his childhood, must have empathized with her struggles early in life.
His own life was very disruptive in his early years. His father left the family when he was only 2 years of age, returning to his home in Kenya. After his parents divorce his mother married an Indonesian student. Later with her new husband she moved with her son to Indonesia. President Obama often speaks of his mother's emphasis on education and how she would wake him up at 5a.m each day to go over his school work with him in English. He attended a school in Jakarta from 6 -10 years of age where classes were taught in the Indonesian language. From 5th grade through graduation he returned to live with his grandparents in Hawaii and attended a private school. His mother returned to live with him and his granparents, but died of ovarian and uterine cancer in 1995. His grandparents and later just his widowed grandmother, cared for him, with the same high standards about education that his mother emphasized.
Children are very fortunate when they have such strong guidance early in life.
So would you like to be President of the United States one day, or a Supreme Court Judge? Whatever your aspirations, value what education can do for you now, and think big. Work hard and you will find the joy of learning will take you anywhere you are determined to go.
Promise this to yourself and have a goal in life. Maybe one day we will be talking about your achievements in life
also. The world is saying "Only in America!" So let us prove them right.
Judge Sotomayor is the latest example of
"yes you can".
A Puerto Rican, raised by her widowed mother in a South Bronx public housing project. Her father, who never learned to speak English, died when she was 9 years of age, and at that time Sonia Sotomayaor was diagnosed with diabetes. Her mother, whom Judge Sotomayor describes as her biggest inspiration, worked six days a week to care for her two children. She instilled the value of EDUCATION. Sotomayor graduated summa cum laude from Princeton, and went on to attend Yale law schol. Her younger brother is a Physician.
President Obama announced his choice after considering many candidates. The President, having himself overcome all odds in his childhood, must have empathized with her struggles early in life.
His own life was very disruptive in his early years. His father left the family when he was only 2 years of age, returning to his home in Kenya. After his parents divorce his mother married an Indonesian student. Later with her new husband she moved with her son to Indonesia. President Obama often speaks of his mother's emphasis on education and how she would wake him up at 5a.m each day to go over his school work with him in English. He attended a school in Jakarta from 6 -10 years of age where classes were taught in the Indonesian language. From 5th grade through graduation he returned to live with his grandparents in Hawaii and attended a private school. His mother returned to live with him and his granparents, but died of ovarian and uterine cancer in 1995. His grandparents and later just his widowed grandmother, cared for him, with the same high standards about education that his mother emphasized.
Children are very fortunate when they have such strong guidance early in life.
So would you like to be President of the United States one day, or a Supreme Court Judge? Whatever your aspirations, value what education can do for you now, and think big. Work hard and you will find the joy of learning will take you anywhere you are determined to go.
Promise this to yourself and have a goal in life. Maybe one day we will be talking about your achievements in life
also. The world is saying "Only in America!" So let us prove them right.
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