<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/">http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/</a></b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama<br>Back to School Event</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; ">Arlington, Virginia<br>September 8, 2009</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; ">======== start clip ========</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; ">Every single one of you has something you’re good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That’s the opportunity an education can provide. </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; ">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.</div><div>======== end clip ========</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></p></span></body></html>