WEBVTT 00:01.500 --> 00:05.070 They are pristine and then education period. 00:05.840 --> 00:06.260 That's. Set. 00:13.000 --> 00:17.190 Issues that succeeds succeed because education provides the foundation 00:17.670 --> 00:21.580 at as the chairman and the Neymar of like than this often a as 00:21.580 --> 00:24.380 the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff they're staying is 00:24.380 --> 00:25.120 that we. 00:25.650 --> 00:27.140 That we have to do. 00:27.860 --> 00:30.470 I want to actually elaborate on those too often. 00:31.360 --> 00:34.630 But there's also things that we get to do that we're lucky enough 00:34.750 --> 00:37.940 to get to do on behalf of our nation and and this is one of those 00:37.940 --> 00:41.670 nights Rachel Terrier. We're just really honored to be here and 00:41.670 --> 00:44.850 lucky enough to be able to have a chance suspension time. 00:44.850 --> 00:48.760 If you've read committed your cells to education being here actually 00:49.090 --> 00:53.220 fee is in feels my optimize and that about the future and I need 00:53.220 --> 00:55.170 all their fuel. I can get right now. 00:56.000 --> 00:59.350 But it reminds me of the stories some of your then and visited 00:59.350 --> 01:02.640 our service academies said and Apple issued color irish bring 01:02.640 --> 01:03.470 should wesch point. 01:04.000 --> 01:06.590 And or if you have an visited them you probably seen them in 01:06.590 --> 01:10.730 the movies when I actually went to the academy in nineteen seventy 01:10.730 --> 01:13.680 tough time in our history actually to go to them to military 01:13.680 --> 01:18.190 can reborn I showed up at the military academy in my then shrugging off. 01:19.160 --> 01:23.980 Every member I wish. Oh intimidated. But I also Wesson exactly share. 01:24.390 --> 01:28.740 What I was singed what was in store for me and a it so I am not 01:28.740 --> 01:32.240 sure there was experiencing what we in a military call that significant 01:32.240 --> 01:33.010 emotional and then. 01:33.570 --> 01:36.500 But there's always in upper class kit K that there somewhere 01:36.500 --> 01:39.420 is going to help you understand what your actually and for and 01:39.420 --> 01:43.500 whom will eventually shepherd you from your parents that particular 01:43.500 --> 01:47.250 upper class men that I confronted was all business very polite 01:47.550 --> 01:51.920 very respectful and and very intended in but it's some point 01:51.920 --> 01:56.360 he asked us to the group others to Shea divide or parents and 01:56.360 --> 02:00.010 move into another and shied that I said goodbye to my parents 02:00.010 --> 02:03.820 and began to move that isiah move down the row actually over 02:03.820 --> 02:07.510 one than that I had I had no idea who she webs eminem. She was 02:07.510 --> 02:11.140 the mother of one of my classmates lead Dutch you just finish 02:11.140 --> 02:14.860 having this terror from almond with her stand and lead dup and 02:14.860 --> 02:18.010 grab me and a big bear hug. Instead honey. It's gonna be.. Okay. 02:18.010 --> 02:25.710 Okay. Shows overall surprise by the affection but I was more surprised. 02:25.740 --> 02:29.670 I think by the fact that it had never occurred to me that watching 02:29.670 --> 02:31.620 gonna be out to her. 02:32.310 --> 02:33.650 Something to myself. 02:34.300 --> 02:35.730 You mean this might not be. 02:35.730 --> 02:41.270 Okay. Job wanted stay the only other time. I've had that experience 02:41.270 --> 02:44.170 are that emotion reason is in my recent testimony before the 02:44.170 --> 02:47.360 congress and high.. Fleet. 02:48.500 --> 02:58.350 Fleet. The not making that up. 03:00.700 --> 03:05.840 Look. Like initially you education is near and dear to my heart 03:06.000 --> 03:10.680 I have a passionate curiosity mbe our that surfers from einstein 03:10.790 --> 03:13.820 einstein said I was in a special leash more. 03:14.760 --> 03:18.340 But I had a passionate curiosity. But I ever passionate curiosity 03:18.630 --> 03:22.480 for history and for literature in particular but more important 03:22.480 --> 03:24.320 for understanding the world. 03:24.850 --> 03:28.480 Alexander graham bell. Put it this way got hedge drooling are 03:28.480 --> 03:30.050 pat's with wonders. 03:30.850 --> 03:31.440 He shared. 03:32.660 --> 03:35.850 And we certainly should not go through life with their eyes shut 03:35.850 --> 03:36.310 to them. 03:36.820 --> 03:40.090 His passion for learning and for teaching lead him to discover 03:40.340 --> 03:41.640 new ways to communicate. 03:42.150 --> 03:45.030 You might be interested to know that on this day in history and 03:45.030 --> 03:49.100 eighteen seventies sex bell was granted the patent for what he 03:49.100 --> 03:51.720 called the a crew shtick. Tell utter. 03:52.500 --> 03:56.090 Which later became known as the foreign and which now some of 03:56.090 --> 03:59.960 your using to text your children to tell them that the chairman 03:59.960 --> 04:01.610 as upper making and aston themselves. 04:03.260 --> 04:05.190 I know that I'm okay with it. That. 04:07.880 --> 04:09.680 I know yet detection Sweden. 04:11.110 --> 04:11.810 The kind of. 04:12.920 --> 04:17.470 Every chance I get and especially when I get to tuck to our younger generation. 04:17.470 --> 04:22.360 I'd tell them that part of being a leader is a deep dedication 04:22.360 --> 04:24.000 to lifelong learning. 04:24.590 --> 04:28.360 Actually believe that if you don't continue to learn your stagnant 04:28.390 --> 04:31.340 and you fall behind in fact thence on Bharti famous football 04:31.340 --> 04:35.620 coach senate in may know the name said if you don't improve you 04:35.620 --> 04:39.470 D cherry air. It. There's no standing still and this live and 04:39.470 --> 04:44.080 mediocre mediocrity can be part of your aspirations. In fact 04:44.110 --> 04:49.080 I call myself the military is highest-ranking student when people 04:49.080 --> 04:53.300 ask me in my duty description since i've become chairmen in and 04:53.300 --> 04:57.230 way before that really. I've been on what I call a personal campaign 04:57.230 --> 05:02.490 of learning I try to reach out to industry to academia to non-profits anybody. 05:02.490 --> 05:06.650 I can to hear their perspectives. So that our armed forces can 05:06.650 --> 05:08.590 benefit from their insights. 05:09.500 --> 05:12.530 And also like to think that on the highest ranking teacher in 05:12.530 --> 05:15.600 the armed forces and the United States and not just because I 05:15.600 --> 05:16.520 taught at west point. 05:17.130 --> 05:17.850 Every day. 05:18.420 --> 05:21.250 Nearly every day I sit down with our their senior leaders and 05:21.250 --> 05:25.670 I talk about them about clarifying our future. Our options shen 05:25.670 --> 05:29.210 the associated risks as we try to get from here to their. 05:30.100 --> 05:33.440 I talk to the force and I tried explain what's happening here 05:33.440 --> 05:34.170 in washington. 05:35.150 --> 05:36.760 That's not the usually. Done. 05:39.500 --> 05:43.390 And I'd asia the public about the amazing bench that our servicemen 05:43.390 --> 05:46.630 and women do every single bed. Up. 05:55.580 --> 05:56.260 Know version. 05:57.000 --> 06:01.980 Julia that just today are shown completed his to or in Afghanistan 06:01.980 --> 06:05.510 and is now in kyrgyzstan on as we're home to reunited with. Mother. 06:14.500 --> 06:17.860 Leading you know the unfortunate to pass on that kind of love 06:17.860 --> 06:21.030 of learning to our own children infect your our children went U.S. 06:21.030 --> 06:25.770 find one when to wake forest university and in the and and also 06:25.770 --> 06:27.770 was commissioned in nowarah to say. 06:28.470 --> 06:30.580 Is your eyes error demon deakin out there. 06:31.220 --> 06:32.960 Collapse them about the day monday than. 06:33.650 --> 06:34.050 I think of. 06:35.230 --> 06:39.850 But actually my children are far more educated a better educators 06:39.850 --> 06:43.140 and I than i've ever been and I should tie I'd I'd that that 06:43.140 --> 06:46.300 like today. If you if you have a moment and even if you don't about. 06:48.070 --> 06:51.530 How I open my first I telling wish it west point when I wanted 06:51.530 --> 06:55.900 to about how I open my. First course when I was instructor wesch 06:55.900 --> 06:58.550 when I wanted to encourage take you know you never you never. 06:58.550 --> 07:00.950 Sure whether you're going to be a good instructor many of your 07:00.950 --> 07:04.460 educators so many are the captains of industry. You never. 07:04.460 --> 07:08.130 Sure how that first meeting is going to go but to I want to set 07:08.130 --> 07:12.270 a positive tone for the semester and so I walked in to this clash 07:12.270 --> 07:15.090 an eighteen year old freshman plead git wesch point. 07:15.600 --> 07:20.230 And a shed your the most impressive class that this institution 07:20.230 --> 07:21.190 has ever soon. 07:21.970 --> 07:23.780 That truthfully that in by at. 07:24.500 --> 07:27.870 I mean then by anti shown about it. Then retrospective began 07:27.870 --> 07:30.990 by at and I immediately either harking back to my. 07:31.590 --> 07:34.850 You you number the adjectives that I know for my english S that 07:34.850 --> 07:37.610 is and I thought hyperbolic they're not going again act and a 07:37.610 --> 07:40.870 sign up for that I for avoid so I tried to tone it down of that 07:41.110 --> 07:44.750 nation your all smart your motivated and disciplined. 07:45.500 --> 07:49.610 And a shield counter we're on edge a nation. Okay luck if anybody 07:49.610 --> 07:53.140 in here is they insuring more. I'm guidance stand up right now. 07:54.680 --> 07:58.420 So after a few seconds. I noticed nobody stood up and it's that. 07:58.420 --> 08:01.900 Okay finally i've got and where they need of a but just about 08:01.900 --> 08:05.450 the time. I was gonna line shut them to my lecture this one particular 08:05.450 --> 08:07.610 young man stood up and snapped to attention. 08:08.500 --> 08:09.980 I was absolutely stunned. 08:10.530 --> 08:15.190 I said to on some do you really consider yourself on moran and 08:15.190 --> 08:17.980 he said Nano share but I don't want to see you standing year 08:17.980 --> 08:18.680 about. Yourself. 08:30.460 --> 08:32.160 And that's actually two-story. 08:33.740 --> 08:37.070 And the one and the young men instead up is now once there general 08:37.070 --> 08:37.990 in the. Manchester. 08:41.550 --> 08:45.890 Let me just go on for a more Magician any other obama self have. 08:46.950 --> 08:50.460 Not because I want to relive that memory but but because I want 08:50.610 --> 08:54.620 you to understand how deeply I'd care about education and the 08:54.620 --> 08:59.040 men and women who need that help script our future. We care because 08:59.040 --> 09:03.780 we know that education is a national strategic research. We know 09:03.780 --> 09:07.590 that the performance of our students and their teachers has a 09:07.590 --> 09:11.330 direct impact a direct impact on the prosperity of our nation 09:11.570 --> 09:17.160 education is what feeds the hot fusion of innovation of trashed 09:17.190 --> 09:22.570 of commerce and what makes or nation. Great eliminates the path 09:22.570 --> 09:25.820 to our great mature and what I said at the beginning we are great 09:25.820 --> 09:30.170 because we dare to be great and it's education that illuminate 09:30.220 --> 09:34.640 that path that allows us to dare to be great in a time when the 09:34.640 --> 09:38.950 acoustic telegraph has evolved into a high powered computer that 09:38.950 --> 09:41.860 fits into your pocket are that you can we're and your rest. 09:42.390 --> 09:46.070 Education is the price of admission into an increasingly competitive 09:46.420 --> 09:51.190 global economic marketplace. But the quality of our educational 09:51.190 --> 09:56.360 institutions also has a direct impact on the security of our nation's. 09:57.060 --> 10:01.880 But the military is it customer of our nation's education system. 10:03.230 --> 10:07.080 We're actually one of its biggest customers hundreds of thousands 10:07.080 --> 10:10.670 of the young men and women that follow on in today's clash rooms 10:10.960 --> 10:16.230 that metric a later stage clash rooms move on to lead tomorrow's wives. 10:16.650 --> 10:21.420 It's squadrons and a ships and what they were there matters. 10:22.270 --> 10:26.410 What war remains a contest of wills. 10:27.050 --> 10:28.520 And wars also discovered. 10:29.290 --> 10:33.290 Preventing wars and you anymore is because on our set out maneuver 10:33.290 --> 10:36.510 our potential adversaries by out thinking them. 10:37.600 --> 10:40.450 There's no more brave heart. You know the movie brave hard. 10:40.740 --> 10:44.630 There's no more graveyards will just moan on and then attack come. 10:45.500 --> 10:47.040 That's not gillette works anymore. 10:48.030 --> 10:50.660 Our forces today understand that. 10:51.210 --> 10:53.850 An international environment is an optional. 10:54.420 --> 10:58.100 Ennis not a theoretical exercise. It's actually part of their lives. 10:58.450 --> 11:01.880 We S these young men and women to solve some of the world's most 11:01.880 --> 11:06.080 challenging complex problems and in its hardest places. 11:06.730 --> 11:09.860 Them or they understand the history the more they understand 11:09.860 --> 11:13.290 that culture the more that they understand the power dynamics 11:13.290 --> 11:16.740 and play the better and the more and during the results that 11:16.740 --> 11:17.670 they will achieve. 11:18.390 --> 11:22.950 Now as you recall wars you can tell I described to the wisdom 11:22.950 --> 11:27.930 of Nelson Mandela. He said education is the most powerful weapon 11:28.240 --> 11:30.210 you can use to change the world. 11:31.080 --> 11:33.650 Course your clad the. Progress. 11:41.280 --> 11:45.270 Education is in the teaches is far more than we can learn and 11:45.270 --> 11:48.930 officially Booker and our in on the periodic table. The elements 11:49.240 --> 11:51.960 in chemistry in about a why we have that anymore since we can 11:51.960 --> 11:52.650 google it now. 11:53.650 --> 11:56.570 But when it from a sleigh when I mean that we're there's story 11:56.570 --> 11:58.960 about when I was a graduate student Duke university. 12:00.030 --> 12:03.510 I studied I studied english but I tried to be interdisciplinary. 12:03.510 --> 12:06.560 I was a bit of a pioneer not really that that would be gp cue 12:06.560 --> 12:09.960 to do that when I was a graduate student. So I decided attention music. 12:10.550 --> 12:13.840 At decided attention part history and I decided take some literature 12:13.840 --> 12:16.970 and trad and no together. I was curious actually at what will happen. 12:16.970 --> 12:20.560 If I did that and one of the parts that shows was william blake 12:20.560 --> 12:24.160 and william blake you my remember west both poet and a luminous 12:24.160 --> 12:28.420 T illuminated. He's manuscripts with our there are and with our 12:28.450 --> 12:33.710 work and on this professor when I chose this particular BP semester 12:33.710 --> 12:37.880 long paper said to me you know this is a very and complex topic 12:37.880 --> 12:39.530 you've taken where mister dempsey. 12:40.180 --> 12:43.140 Are you sure you want to do this you know your your your trying 12:43.140 --> 12:46.250 to achieve your masters not the Nobel peace prize in literature. 12:46.810 --> 12:49.890 Aeshin but I want to give this a shot. So I worked hard. I mean 12:49.890 --> 12:53.340 I really that I worked really hard for the entire semester attorney 12:53.340 --> 12:57.460 then and that that the end of the semester I got back to she plus. 12:58.530 --> 13:01.240 Now those years in of any graduate school and many of you have 13:01.240 --> 13:04.360 no that as she pleasure graduates grows like you know the big 13:04.400 --> 13:06.330 elf stamped on your forehead. 13:07.000 --> 13:10.570 That says you know you have not achieved you have not tried you 13:10.570 --> 13:14.650 are the un where the wire you hear you know what is in about 13:14.650 --> 13:17.910 Duke that you'd in understand the for you came here. Why did 13:17.910 --> 13:21.960 you insult me without your presence in my classroom and that 13:21.990 --> 13:26.060 I was absolutely stunned and I went to the professor and I said 13:26.060 --> 13:29.940 to on you know perfect is of stays name that is actually we become 13:29.940 --> 13:33.380 good friends of the years professor stramma ergo said how could 13:33.380 --> 13:35.990 you give me a C. I mean I worked. 13:36.500 --> 13:40.510 I worked as hard on that paper for six months than i've ever 13:40.510 --> 13:45.050 worked on anything in in my entire life any notice said to me 13:45.340 --> 13:48.730 he said and it's a sevenish Redemption of any service important 13:48.790 --> 13:51.780 that you leave your graduate education understanding was he said 13:51.780 --> 13:54.490 us that the harder we're that's the out from the producers. 13:55.690 --> 13:57.160 And I thought. Oh. 14:00.570 --> 14:05.220 It any drives it is and just about the after it's got to at some 14:05.220 --> 14:08.710 point if your at you put your education to use it you've got 14:08.710 --> 14:12.260 to produce outcomes. You note during nearly a dozen years and 14:12.260 --> 14:16.700 war the engineer already the imagination and the intellect of 14:16.700 --> 14:19.100 the young men and women are where this uniform that I'm sure 14:19.100 --> 14:23.700 proud to use on the front lines around the world had just had 14:23.700 --> 14:28.590 done just that they've delivered outcomes in a rack in Afghanistan 14:28.820 --> 14:34.580 we gave them tremendous responsibilities pushing capability responsibility 14:34.760 --> 14:37.830 and even authority to the very edge of the battlefield to the 14:37.830 --> 14:39.270 lowest levels of command. 14:39.820 --> 14:43.550 Today at twenty two year old second lieutenant can have more 14:43.550 --> 14:45.970 responsibility and I had as a two star general. 14:46.500 --> 14:49.370 In two thousand and three in Baghdad when I can enter the first 14:49.400 --> 14:50.200 armor division. 14:51.270 --> 14:55.830 Here's a point in the coming years. Our force the nice ace military 14:55.830 --> 15:00.550 force will transition from Khan's thing campaigning. And we'll 15:00.550 --> 15:02.120 have to be ready for. 15:02.750 --> 15:08.270 Unknown contingencies. We can talk all we want about what we 15:08.270 --> 15:12.650 want to do in the future. But others get a vote and when the 15:12.650 --> 15:15.910 others get a vote we've got to be ready. No matter. How complex 15:15.910 --> 15:18.410 and how uncertain and ham ship rising it it. 15:18.920 --> 15:22.690 And is the soldiers sailors airmen ranging coast. Guardsmen return 15:22.690 --> 15:27.560 home from these incredible mission was that they have accomplished 15:27.740 --> 15:30.570 and there's thousands others like them transition out of the 15:30.570 --> 15:34.400 military we N stay in the military we have to keep challenging 15:34.400 --> 15:37.460 than when you know leverage this incredible resource to drive 15:37.460 --> 15:41.890 their energy in their curiosity into productive pursuits that 15:41.890 --> 15:43.550 benefit the entire nation. 15:44.180 --> 15:48.260 We're staring in a moment of national opportunity and we can 15:48.260 --> 15:49.350 afford to look away. 15:50.810 --> 15:54.510 What you are teaching in these international relations courses 15:54.790 --> 15:58.310 around the country that actually lead that what you're learning 15:58.340 --> 16:00.640 or making your graduate students learn. 16:01.190 --> 16:04.030 In the graduate lad. They've actually use that. 16:04.620 --> 16:08.630 What you're hearing from the experts they've actually experience that. 16:09.160 --> 16:13.720 Or as a lot there clams stay put it informations pretty fenced up. 16:14.300 --> 16:16.200 Unless you next it will experience. 16:17.000 --> 16:19.930 The impact that this generation of leaders. Sure coming back 16:19.930 --> 16:24.090 from twelve years and war we'll have this pull of experience 16:24.420 --> 16:28.990 can have a can actually have such an impact on our nation's educate 16:28.990 --> 16:32.570 education system that can be profound and I hope anonymously 16:32.570 --> 16:35.950 opportunity in a time when industry in on speaking this right 16:35.950 --> 16:39.430 because I know I have industry leaders here in a time when industry 16:39.430 --> 16:43.390 is competing for talent really outer fine new ways to get are 16:43.390 --> 16:45.730 veterans involved in the clash rooms. Well.. Thank. 16:46.330 --> 16:58.170 Thank. Nudges systems bowen. But also taking in venues your the 16:58.170 --> 17:01.910 gi bill but who are taking advantage of the gi bill but also 17:01.910 --> 17:03.580 is teachers guess lectures. 17:04.250 --> 17:06.110 Mentors and advisors. 17:06.630 --> 17:10.100 Sharing their knowledge and continuing to contribute turn national 17:10.100 --> 17:14.610 security even after their out of uniform programs by the way 17:14.610 --> 17:19.010 it like troops to teachers and dod star base our start but we 17:19.010 --> 17:23.400 can do more and I'm optimistic that we can and we will I'm optimistic 17:23.720 --> 17:26.510 because of the leaders that I have met here tonight. 17:27.500 --> 17:31.630 And those who will follow in your footsteps. I'm optimistic because 17:31.660 --> 17:35.430 of the men and whenever armed forces in their dedication to needing 17:35.430 --> 17:38.600 and matching the challenges they face every day. I'm optimistic 17:38.600 --> 17:40.640 because through these challenging times. 17:41.260 --> 17:45.620 Here I am in a room foe people that are passionate about making 17:45.620 --> 17:51.160 a difference and as judge in up some of you know the That famous 17:51.160 --> 17:53.860 said Deirdre Marsh on that's post to mention names. 17:54.440 --> 17:57.120 That and this particular mexican beer commercial. 17:58.860 --> 18:00.180 The directive beard. 18:00.850 --> 18:02.840 The most interesting men and the world. 18:04.530 --> 18:05.800 Other than the. Ambassador. 18:09.130 --> 18:12.960 Tells everybody to stay there's been my friends. Here's my advice 18:12.960 --> 18:14.270 to all of us here tonight. 18:14.940 --> 18:19.130 As read confront they really uncertain future. And of very very 18:19.130 --> 18:23.590 complex world stay curious my friends. Thank you very much..