Ted Talks

Michelle Obama- A plea for education

This video is of Michelle Obama's plea for education talk in Elizabeth G. Anderson School UK. Michelle is on her first visit as First Lady to the UK.

After watching this talk, I knew I had to write about, although I don’t want to give a commentary of what Michelle is talking about, what I really want to talk about is what I got from this talk.

Firstly, I would have to talk about how fantastic a speaker Michelle is, her tone is passionate, she speaks with flow and grace and this adds to the levels of interest and enjoyment that I had from this talk. As a person she is the perfect example of what her plea is for. Michelle was born in a working class environment and with all the love, support and her own hard work she has got to where she has today, she has got herself to a place where she can influence and inspire so many others to do the same.

 Michelle argues that we are all born with what we need to succeed, and with the right balance of love and nurture in the home, community and school environment we can achieve anything that we want and choose our own destinies. I agree with her, and although she stresses to her audience (Elizabeth G. Anderson students) that they should strive to be the world’s next leaders, I believe that no matter what you want to be, if you want to be a nurse, a dentist, a bin collector or the next Priminister, then you should work hard to achieve whatever goal you have set yourself.

Michelle talks about the world as it is and the world as it should be, and how we can close the gap between the two. She suggests that with a good education, which will either act as a social class vehicle or a way that we can climb to the top to change the world, we all can close this gap between what the world is and what it should be. I again agree with her, however, I feel that this view of the world, whilst it is a lovely image, is a slightly unrealistic view of the world. This is my opinion, hopefully, we all know that a majority of the world are living without basic human rights; we know that people are being hurt, are not living in freedom and are without food or water. But, people are still carrying on as the way they are, so where Michelle makes the bold plea for women to rise to the top, take the reins and close the gap, it’s not about the people at the top, it’s about everyone, it’s about ignorance and for the people that we are ignoring, it’s about not knowing there is another life other than the one they are living. People don't change because they have been told too, we all only change if we won't to change. So instead of trying to change others ways, let’s change ourselves first!


Micheal Jackson- Man in the Mirror
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