President Obama on the Importance of STEM Education

We  do  need  a  new  education system. Based on creativity, individuality  and  digitality. Because  this  is  the  future.
We  do  need  a  much  more  freely  system not  controlled  by  the govs. I  do strongly believe it  is  time  for  humans  to  take  accountability  of  their  own destinies. To  start with the  children. We  are  born as individuals. We must learn  as  individuals.We are  all here for  a  reason. We must discover wich reason. Then, only then  we  can  start  live  a  fulfilled  life.

I can't understand why Re/code has such few views on it's video all the times..

I stopped the video a minute it. I don't know who the interviewer is - but don't cut off the President. Have some respect.

Should a recipient of the benefits of AFFIRMATIVE ACTION really be considered as someone with credibility to speak on education. I think not. NOTE:One of Obama's first acts as president was that Obama closed all the Charter Schools in DC. He is an ideologue whose policies have hurt the chances of many young POOR BLACK students from receiving a better education through the Charter School movement. Political expediency is Obama's Education Legacy. He sends his kids to Expensive Private Schools because the DC Public School system, like all k-12 government run schools in bad neighborhoods, are terrible. But although Obama's kids are too good for the BLACK dominated DC Public Schools and obviously more worthy of a prep school education than any of the Kids who live in the DC and went to the charter schools he closed, is it not obvious that the OBAMA children ARE worthy of their POSH private school . It is perfectly obvious the Black kids from the OBAMA closed Charter schools, who are now condemned to poor education, should be happy since OBAMA's closure of the DC charter school system they attended gave Obama the support of TEACHER's UNION support and control of the DC Public Schools. But it is a little surprising that there was no Democratic protest against the injustice of closing DC Charter Schools. I guess in some sense all Democrats agree that "BLACK" lives DON"T matter. If OBAMA can sacrifice some BLACK KIDS, via closing the DC Charters Schools, and it helped Obama secure Teacher Union support then who cares if a few hundred Blacks have to lose an opportunity at a better life? WHO cares? NOT OBAMA OR THE DEMOCRATS. So Black lives only matter if politics does not intrude. Too bad for the now condemned BLACK kids who now get a poor education in the failing Gov't run DC school. Obama could easily be called a racist if he were not Black and raised in a black family in a poor BLACK neighborhood.

BUT WAIT, OBAMA WAS RAISED BY A WHITE BANKER MARRIED TO A COLLEGE EDUCATED WHITE WOMAN AND SENT TO THE BEST PREP SCHOOL IN HAWAII. NOTE: the Hawaii prep school is, for all intents and purposes, ALL WHITE, and this K-12 PRIVATE SCHOOL costs many thousands of dollars a year. But to be fair, I won't mention that his grades were not anything outstanding and Obama had to rely on affirmative action to get into both University and post Graduate University. Democrats never seem to see their own blatant hypocrisy. OBAMA could have pushed for a voucher system that would allow all Black kids, ALL DC kids of any colour , AND his own two daughters, the chance at the education OBAMA and his his kids got from affirmative action. Even his own daughter's grades that were very average.

Shut up bitch let obama talk

Mr President. I learned a lot from many of my teachers when it came to STEM. We the students just don't or didn't know it was a career.

Mr. Obama, this is the closest I can get to telling you how I, a STEM educated used to be professional really feels. You don't give a crap about STEM education, and at least I am the proof! I have a STEM education and industry experience. You and your buddies in DC paved the way for my employment opportunities to diminish to zip! Take that and shove it where the sun doesn't shine Mr. Obama! Made in USA! Hah! What a lie! Try assembled in USA from all things foreign as much as is possible. STEM education! I've got your STEM education!

I'm so excited to learn about stem now that I'm in 5th.

I like and very nessesary human life

One thing that is right and so true is that most girls usually drift away from the interest of stem education around when they are in 7th and 8th grade

I miss Obama.

Who declared that for society to be “fair” everythang must be distributed per the demographic?
If I were a woman who could leverage my gender, I would not waste that on STEM where three days a week are spent in mind and butt numbing project, budget and schedule status meetings, where creativity is stifled by risk averse managers who fear looking bad and career advancement is found kissing up the big dogs after work in fern bars and Saturday morning golf games.
STEM is Dilbert plus Caddy Shack.
Who would choose that if there were another way?

More black people should get into stem field

Seriously, she needs to stop cutting him off.

Ouch.

Very Nice Video Go A Head

Is it possible that women and African-Americans don't like STEM? Is it possible that they naturally don't like it? Is it possible that God made men and women different? Is it necessarily a problem if some groups don't like STEM? Is everyone supposed to be the same?

Writing code is not science. It’s very useful particularly if you are a scientific person but it’s not science. Mathematics, physics, chemistry and engineering science are all difficult. Most people get lazy and give up. If you want to reverse the trends you have to encourage people - give them self belief and set the bar high.

I agree with Obama that stem education has to be for everybody and not only certain students. Dmitri the illustrious was a certain student and look at what I had to do to police him while I wasn't a chosen student at k state like he was.

Yet Tech workers are being laid off by the busload.

bad interviewer

TLDR STEM DoD research something something national security something something global competiviness. Your welcome.

Obama failed us. STEM does not guarentee a good paying job in todays job market. I graduated with a bio major in 2017 and saw that they were paying only 18 to 22$/hr a lab tech. If the government want to improve stem, incentivize it for low income students. I have many friends who did STEM and did not find jobs after their bachelors degree. Ive gotten friends in mechanical engineering who couldnt find a good paying job and most were laid off. Instead, we got OF models and social media stars making crazy amounts of money. Thank you government. Thank you obama. I shouldnt have listened to you in 8th grade. Low income households cannot be successful financially if they pursue biology, physics, chemistry as their bachelors degree. It will be very difficult to live off of that income. Getting a phD in biology isnt even worth it too. They are underpaid and overworked. Theres no longer an incentive to pursue these fields

STEM is expensive. Cram school, tutors, math like Calculus A, B, and C and Linear Algebra are going to take TIME.

College is expensive. Only 30% of Americans have a bachelor's degree. (It is rising)

People are realistically more likely to fail the harder Biology, Chemistry, and Math classes. So it will take longer.

Be prepared for 5 years of college rather than the traditional 4.