After reading the speech and listening to the speech, it was pretty well written and delivered and even had a lot of conservative values to it. However, the praise can be offset with some criticism. I will track these criticisms. 

To begin, the real problem began with the "homework" that was handed out to the schools, that was revised after a lot of outcry; regarding questions like, what can I do for president Obama. Questions like this promote an unconscious commitment to a person, not a country, or in other words, promote him as a demigod rather than a man who holds an office. 

He has a lot of controversial people who make up his cabinet, his advisers and his czars. He’s made a lot of controversial comments about the people of this country and this country in general. Not to mention his ability to make people feel good about how he spoke, rather than listened to what he’s really saying and the words he’s really speaking. 

If one were to add both of the two preceding paragraphs together, then we would conclude (without reading the speech, that he would indeed be delivering something that could be biased and mind altering of the children who are prone to being influenced.

After reading his speech, there are things in the speech that reference ideals like fairness. If we want to run on fairness in this country, then everyone will get the same wage, regardless of their job. There will be no competition  that makes our country strive to be better, and there will be no incentive for people to be great, because their reward is the same as the reward the person who doesn’t give a pooh about what they are doing.  

He makes the remark that anyone can strive to become Senator or Supreme Court Judge Etc, but then goes on to say that the kids can’t be NBA stars, or reality TV stars.  Just who is he to tell kids they can’t be something of this nature?

Maybe you could be a good writer – maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper – but you might not know it until you write a paper for your English class. Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor – maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone or a new medicine or vaccine – but you might not know it until you do a 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.

I know that sometimes, you get the sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work -- that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star, when chances are, you’re not going to be any of those things

Just for fun, to prove to myself just how narcissistic this guy is, I counted 58 references to self in this speech. Again, just for fun… 

To sum up my thoughts on the speech, it was conservative in nature which I thought was a good message to deliver to kids. I feel that the administration’s actions leading up to this speech were controversial and I applaud the actions of all who protested those actions and forced the president and his administration to change their tactics. I feel that fairness should have not been in the speech, and telling kids they could be a Senator or Supreme Court Justice and not an NBA star or other type of star, was kind of ridiculous when there are far more NBA stars or reality stars than there ever have been Senators or Supreme Court Justices. So on a scale from 1 to 10, I will give him a 7.5 because it was conservative in nature. I subtracted 2.5 points for the “homework” leading up to the speech, and the references to fairness and telling kids they can do anything if they work hard, but then contradicts himself and tells kids they can’t do other things whether they work hard or not.

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