glass law school. property is for poor people it is something you did have, particularly in the south. so i tried to understand property. who do you think would be most who do you think would be most vulnerable in taking these cases? it well-heeled real-estate lawyer? a well-heeled businessman? or a poor person? read you think they would build a highway, to a poor neighborhood order to neighborhood? where do you think they would let people have an industrial development? i think that we should be very, that careful with words change, when use becomes purpose. what is the purpose versus the use? can a purpose be a bigger tax base?

can it be beautification? can it be urban renewal? you are taking people's property where the constitution uses the word "use" and not "purpose." i was trying to say something is wrong. something does not make sense. so i was not angry. it.d not personalize i said something is wrong with what we are doing. that lady, she did not have anything. she lived in that house. about croatiang neighborhood. this lady lived -- family lived in that house 100 years or so. that's all she's got. so i think if it does not protect her, who does it protect? >> we would like to end with another question from a student. this is from lindsay, first year student.

i think it's a great question. youngks what do you tell men and women entering the legal profession today? >> my goodness. [laughter] the world is different from when i started out. i did not even have good advice for myself. i tried to give advice to my law clerks. -- try. i tell them there will be challenges. i certainly had my share. i cannot claim to have reacted in an appropriate way a lot of times. i was very cynical and very negative, listen to a lot of the wrong people, and round up being not constructive or positive. matter whatthem no to try to remain positive, to try to remain --remember why you went to law school. i still remember sitting on my

30th birthday and 31st birthd stay in st. louis cataloging what i wanted to do looking at the dreams i had. i say to write down why you went and tried to remember that and try to remain positive, and to pass the bar exam. [laughter] anyway, i know that they will give me the hook. off.n will just cut you [laughter] i want to thank you all. i want to say to the students that sometimes when you get a degree in, you really don't know what you are going to accomplish. tom.tioned the young man, atintroduced me when i was

eeoc to another graduate, who was a student here time, marc. arc would then go on to be absolutely the key and instrumental in my confirmation. he is a person with whom i spent the most time during the most difficult times. .e was a kid educated here whatever professors educated him, whatever professors dealt with palm, i congratulate him. the honesty of your work, the energy, the integrity is all embodied in this young man named at marc. i want to thank you all for inviting me here today. i don't do as many speaking engagements as probably i should, but it is an opportunity to speak to people who

understand why we do well in order to do good. i really encourage you to continue thinking that way and doing things that way. so thank you for putting up with me this afternoon. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> on the next law center internal, the enforcement of tax exempts laws with a former director of the irs exempt organizations division. and a senior white house correspondent for u.s. news and world report will discuss his new book, prisoners of the white house, about the lives of u.s. presidents in office and the white house bubble. washington journal begins live it 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> [video clip] >> there tends to be a

denigration of the u.s. military by some historians that say battalion german fought an american battalion or one regiment fought an american regimen that the germans tended to be tactically superior, that they were the better military. i think this is nonsense, because it is pointless. global war is a clash of systems it. it is which system can produce the wherewithal to project power in the atlantic, the pacific, the indian ocean, southeast asia. hich system can produce ithe civilian leadership to create the transportation systems, the civilian leadership that is able to produce 96,000 airplanes in 1944? it's sunday, june 2, author and

journalist rick atkinson will take your calls, e-mails, facebook comments, and tweets, three hours live on sunday at noon eastern on "book tv on c- span2. >> supreme court justice sonia sotomayor was at a ceremony earlier this month to open a new judicial center in denver. before the ceremony, she answered questions with a group of eighth grade, ninth grade, and dan chris stevens about your work, a career, and childhood. this is just under an hour. -- she answered questions about her work, her career, and her childhood. [applause] no, it is still on real for me when somebody calls me a rock star. [laughter] me when iside of don't thinkmea i

i have gotten old. i still think of myself as about your age. believe it or not, here was, , i was slimurlier and did not have gray hair. but inside i still feel like you. what that makes me think about is the only worthwhile thing of today for u.s. probably that you got the day off from school. [laughter] view are some of wondering it what is she going to say to me that is going to mean anything? i don't know that i can say anything to you that means that much to you right here now, because all i can do is share with you what i have learned that if youife, so have moments like the ones i

have had in my life that you might remember my words someday and they may give you a little bit of hope for yourself. you see, when i was in your place, and unfortunately when you become a rock star like people say i am, you know what you lose, you lose the ability to be in the audience, because they put me in the center of the room everywhere i go. [laughter] sometimes it's pretty horrible. sometimes it is just nice to look and listen. talking do too much now. i'm only going to talk to you for a few minutes and then we are going to talk together and have a conversation, because i hope you'll ask me questions. there are a lot of seats over here and i saw some kids over there. why don't you and come phil in these seats. don't be ashamed. come on. i've got some people.

when i was your age, i did not know there was a supreme court. i'm a dinosaur. in the days before the internet when you heard a word like the supreme court to, you had to pick yourself up, go to the library, and research what it meant. so if i heard the word supreme court -- and i probably did in the news -- by the time i got to the library i did not remember the word or look it up. so i knew there was a court up there. but the only court i understood was the courts that i had seen on television. and my favorite show when i was "perry mason." hard for you to imagine there was a time when television was still black and white and that i got to see the first television lawyer.

taught me something and television taught me something. your parents will hate hearing me say that. [laughter] because a lot of them think their religion -- a lot of them think television is our oil. a little bit of anything can be pretty good. watching perry mason talk to me about something called lawyer ing. i had no lawyers in my family and had never met a lawyer. so it was a profession i knew nothing about. and all of a sudden television expose me to this different career. and i started to examine it and think about it as a possibility for myself. but what was not the possibility was becoming a supreme court justice, because, if you don't

know what the supreme court is, you don't know what the supreme court justice is. point.t is the 't dream unless you know what the possibilities are, because dreams don't just pop up into your head. dreams are things that you learn give you hope about it something you can become. so how do you find those dreams? the way you are right now. by taking the chance and applying for a competition and hoping that you get picked, as the 100 in this room did, that the others who tried, you did

something just as important. you tried. and that is what life is about. to learn about your possibilities, you have to try things that could be scary. how many of you have traveled and spent the night here last night? if your rent it teacher came with you instead of a parent, that it was a little frightening. when you go away from home at your age, the only people i ever stayed with was my family. but unless you are willing to do things that you are a little afraid of to learn new things, you cannot dream. you can dream, but you won't really know what your possibilities are. and so i am very proud of all of

you, proud you are taking the chance to learn something new. not everybody in the room is going to become a lawyer. not everybody should become a lawyer. [laughter] daymaybe one of you one will be on this supreme court or maybe you will be on the u.s. supreme court and i hope i'm around to see that. i'm going to make a promise i might regret, which is anybody watching this today in this room ever becomes a justice, i will , ok?and swear you in [cheers and applause] now, i happen to like the law. if the chiefs will give me books -- these are my books. one of the purposes of my book,

it was written for you, and i'm a secret away. you are all going to get a copy of it. [cheers and applause] is a gift of the supreme court to the state of colorado. [applause] it is signed and dedicated to each of you. the reason i wrote the book was for you. it was for the hope that anyone who shares any part of their --e that could be like mine and i have had a lot of challenges of life -- . you'll read about -- first of all, i have had juvenile diabetes since i was 7. i've given myself insulin shots since i was 8 years old.

my dad had a drinking problem and died when i was very young at the age of nine. i grew up in poverty. i grew up in a housing project in the bronx. i spoke english. i spoke spanish before english. and when i went to college i had to teach myself how to write english the right way, because i wrote it very poorly. and what do you get? i'm on the supreme court and you know what my job is, i write all day long. [laughter] it's a long way to come. for a kid like me who did not know what lawyers were or a supreme court justices, i did not know my possibilities. and i wrote this book so that anyone who ever feels like they are not sure about what they can life andcan look at my

i hope safe to yourselves she's just like me and she could make i. so can night -- so can that's the message i want you to carry away. because it's not anything special that i have, except for one thing. i always knew how to say i don't know. lawyers who lot of come to the supreme court. they get questions from the justices, from the judges. they don't know the answer. instead of saying i don't know, they try to make believe they know. [laughter] lawyers in the room and a lot of judges. i sit there scratching my head. not in front of them. but inside of myself and saying,

are you crazy? you've got nine judges in front of you, why are you trying to make believe you don't know something? i find a lot of people do that. you sit in the classroom, the teachers talking, you don't understand what he or she is saying, but use a pair making believe you do, because you are ashamed of saying, raising your hand and saying you're not being clear, i don't understand. i was never afraid of doing that. every single time i did not know enoughing i had confidence to say i don't know. that takes courage. and most people don't have it. that you something just need a special skill to do. so i encourage you, whenever you

meet up with something new that's a little frightening and you don't know how to do it, fear in thek the face and say i will figure it out, and just ask and steady until you do figure it out. so what happened? i look that perry mason on television. as i started going to high- school and college, and eventually learned about the supreme court and more about the law. i'm going to read you a little of my book. my childhood ambitions to become a lawyer had nothing to do with middle-class respectability and comfort. some lawyers make a good living, but that was not what motivated me. i understood the lawyer's job as being to help people. i understood the law as a force for good, for protecting the

community, for upholding order against the threat of chaos, and for resolving conflicts. to mostgives structure of our relationships, allowing us all to promote our interests at once been the most harmonious way. and overseeing this noble purpose with dispassionate wisdom was the figure of the judge. heroes, have action astronauts, firemen, commandos. my idea of heroism in action was a lawyer. the judge being a kind of superlawyer. the law for me was not a career but a vocation. i found my passion. and that is what you should be looking for. because i really believe that what you do best are the things you are passionate about, the

things you like. and they don't tend to be important to anyone but you. televisionou watched and you think the governor --i'm sorry, and i hope he's not here -- [laughter] the president, vice-president, senators, justices, governors, those are the important people in life. well, they do important jobs, but so does everybody else. the school bus driver who picks you up in the morning and takes your home and night , the andwho yourd the personal helps parents with their food with any jobme, anybody, helps and serves people. what is important is something my mom used to tell me, that you do what you are doing well and

that you like doing it, because if you like doing it, you will be giving to others. and so, i found my passion in life, but you can find it in almost anything you do. i'm a lawyer and judge. as long as it is legitimate work. i have to say this. just don't to criminal activity. that would be a bad thing. but as long as you are doing thating that is gainful you like doing a, you are going to be giving things to other people. and so, you can walk around this building and you will see all of the art. these are people who sit in their homes usually and they create things. they are doing it for a love, because in their head and they are seeing a piece of art and they are imagining the joint others are going to take from it. it does not matter whether you

teaching,medicine, accounting, driving a taxi, driving a truck. i don't care what you pick. just pick something that excites you, because that is what will make your life meaningful. y andwill give you a jo it will give joy to the people around you and it will make what you do more important for the people who share it. an item of talking? should i now let you all ask questions? i'm grateful that you are here. the judicial learning center, i don't know if they have opened it up for you yet, but don't leave without seeing it. it is really extraordinary. i don't know of any other courthouse that have anything like this. it is an interactive center. it is liked the newseum, but it teaches you about the state and

federal courts in colorado. -- like a museum. before you leave, even if you don't want to be a lawyer, go learn something about it so that you can say, with the knowledge, i don't want to be that. [laughter] brave andg to be asked the first question? go ahead. i thought you first period tell us your name and where you are from. fromndiscernible] colorado. >> against. from colorado. i was wondering what the biggest challenge being a latino woman that the lawyer and became a supreme court justice, what was the biggest challenge for you? -- latina. theirople organize

dealings with other people often based on stereotypes. it is a way to simplify life, because human beings are very complex. to get to know somebody, you have to spend a lot of time. you have to make a lot of effort. they just of people, don't know how to do that. too much for them. and a lot of people during my career at various times that i was being nominated to do things, a lot of people looked fromaid it, a poor latina new york, she cannot be smart enough. during my nomination process, there were a lot of people who wrote that. it was very, very hurtful to me. i had graduated very near the top of my class at college, did

very well at law school, had lots of real important jobs, but people were still saying i was not smart enough. and i knew that was because of stereotypes. it is something that we all have to spend time fighting. it is what makes you sometimes look at somebody else and say they're not really a pretty, because you don't spend any time getting to know who they are inside and learning that beauty comes from the inside. it has nothing to do with what a person looks like on the outside. it is the personality they give the world. but you need to take time to do that. and so, that has been my biggest challenge, dealing with people's expectations, and having fun proving them wrong.

[laughter] you guys are good. sidney. what did you like to do growing up besides watch perry mason? do you know why i'm walking around? because my nickname when i was a kid was aqui. -- ahi. my family made up that name because that is a hot pepper, and i could not sit still. they would give me all sorts of labels, because i was constantly on the move. mom said that at 7 months old i did not call, i went from the floor, stood up and ran. i never walked. i still do that. crawl.d not

as a kid, i loved playing cowboys and indians, police man and robbers. back then, you have to use a lot of imagination. i was poor, but not starving. the point is it was a different world. we did not have as many toys or interactive toys, so we had to play games. i would spend hours playing and never standing still. into quite a bit of rights protecting my younger brother. he talks about it all the time. i loved reading. was, thesion -- it books, as important as television was for giving me a sense of possibility about being a lawyer. the world opened for me when i read.

when i found books, i found my aunt rocket ship to the universe. i say that literally, because among the books i loved were science fiction, mysteries, history, books about other cultures. i cannot travel to those places. i never imagined that i would take the trips that i take it now. who would have thought i would be in colorado? [laughter] so i have to visit those places through books. visit those places. so i spent hours and hours reading. my mom said i never came to the dinner table without a book. now my friends fight about whether that's good or bad and telling their kids they cannot read or play games during dinner. i don't know what the right answer is, but those were the things i liked doing. >> my name is turner and i'm

from west high school. what's the best advice you can give to a high school students would like to become a successful leader sunday? >> i think i gave it earlier when i said to take chances. you know, failure hertz. -- hurts. embarrassing, and can be mortifying sometimes. i talk about some of my failures in my book and they really sting. the hardest thing to do is to take chances where you can fail. us like the of security of doing things we think we can do. but you have to take a class that you might not be doing something well it. you have to do something that it took me until i was 50 years old to do it, to take a dance class.

because my mother tells me that every time my cousin -- female cousins were learning how to dance at family parties i was outside chasing fireflies. and i cannot sit long enough to watch and listen and figure out how to dance. it took me until i was 50 to learn how to do a little awkward. because i felt sor and i'm not a good dancer, but try. take a course. take a course in something you don't think you can do. try a new activity after school, because it looks like fun and you might as well try it now, because when you get to college you might not have the time. so just take chances. yes? and then i will go to that at end in a second.

from boulder, colorado. what was one of the first opportunities that you went after to get to where you are today? hmm -- going away to college. no one in my family and had newduated from college in york when i was growing up. some of my cousins were just going to college. and all of them were going to local colleges. i had a friend to call aand said you have to apply to these ivy league schools. i said to him, what are ivy league schools? they are the best colleges in the united states, harvard,

princeton, yale. and i said i cannot afford to go. he said they will give you a scholarship. so how much does it cost to apply, i cannot afford that either? he said they will waive the fee, sonya, just do it, apply. and i got in. today, and on how hard it was to get in, i probably would not have tried, because i would have thought why take the risk to be rejected? but i took the risk. and then i had to decide whether i would go, because my grandmother said to me, sonya, why are you going so far away from home. it -- sonia. all your cousins are going to local colleges. , and loved my grandmother it was really painful for me to , but i thinkta

this education will be important to me. that was the first step to the rest of my life. not that i could not have gotten butod education near home, i met people in my college from around the world, from every place in the country, and they taught me so much about things i did not know about. and being away from home gave me a chance to learn about the different places and different ways of living and the different opportunities that i had. and it was safe, because i still got to go home at the holidays, hap thanksgiving with my mother and christmas. when i got really lonely, i took a bus and came home. didthat's going away really start my life.

taking those chances. for every parent in this room who does not want you to go away, they will hate me today. [laughter] yes? from delta, colorado. i would like to ask, as humans, we profile people. what you think about racial profiling? and why are the yankees your favorite baseball team? [laughter] first, i grew up in the bronx. so what other team am i going to love but the yankees? [applause] you grow up in the bronx, there's only one team. even when you leave the bronx, there's only one team, the yankees. i am a little egotistical about that. i assume you're asking about racial profiling in police work? i talked to you about the dangers of stereotyping and then

holds true in every context, whether it is in police work, in choosing people for any kind of job or for anything. it has dangers if what you are doing is using profiling without thought. by that i mean if you are thinking -- if you are police officer or anyone else thinking that only profiling is going to approve who did something, you are probably going to be wrong most. of the most because that's not the way the world works. their indicators of sorts that have to be listened to? absolutely. they are talking about, if you been following the news about the boston bombing and about criticisms, whether justified or not, about following up on the activities of the two young men .ho were involved is that profiling? it could be.

is it something you just cannot ignore? maybe sometimes not. it's a fine line the sidewalks in trying to be fair -- a fine line that society walks. as long as you understand everything you do in life, don't do it without thought. really understand the purpose of what you are doing. and that will give you better answers. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. back here. yes? .> hi, i'm kathleen my question is kind of complicated. i was watching one of your interviews with pbs and you were talking about how supreme court justice john paul stevens said that no one is born a supreme court justice, they simply become one. during the interview you said that you have not become one one yet.

throughout all the challenges in your life and your obvious position now, why did you say that? i was confused. >> it is a fair question, because what i meant is that you grow in every position that you are in. every day of your life you should spend trying to learn something new. i walked into a job as a justice on day one and i had been a judge 17 years. but being the justice was something new. in some ways a different sort of judging. the same on a lot of issues, but the questions are much bigger. and they are questions that don't have clear answers. when cases come to the supreme court, it is because generally there's a conflict in the courts below. different judges are looking at the same question and they are

coming to different dancers. and so, by definition, if it comes to as the supreme court, tos unclear -- if it comes the supreme court. if it's unclear antecedents are not so clear, then we have to do something else -- and the precedents are not clear, then we have to do something else. each day and that i and the dust is now, i'm learning how to do that better. more broadly, to think more precisely, to understand better the consequences of the decisions we make, and the why and how to avoid the bad ones in the future. because no court is perfect, no justice is perfect. we grow. if what i meant in that interview is that i was not born a justice.

john paul stevens was saying it he grew saying it after 30 years on the court, into a legend of a justice. ,nd he was saying to me, sonia to become a legend, you have to work at it. that gave me a lot of confidence in knowing that i was growing as a justice. not besions today will as good as the ones 10 years from now or the ones tomorrow. thank you. let me go to the other side, ok? i cannot get stuck on one side only. young man with the blonde hair back there. if you were my age there would be asking if that was really your color. i know it is. [laughter] >> i, and joshua from colorado springs, homer high school. very calm cute outfit, by the

way. i love it. >> thank you. a lot of problems in your life with diabetes and everything. i have epilepsy. what's your inspiration? up.e little things add >> they can be overwhelming at times. was one gift i got from my diabetes. it was the gift of understanding how precious life is. when i was first i-- and this was over 50 years ago -- taking care of the disease was very different than it is today. and the statistics back them -- and this is not true now, for any diabetic in this room, today diabetics can live a full life

span with many, many less complications, but when i was first diagnosed they were at the very beginning of taking care of diabetes, most people with my kind of diabetes were predicted to die young. and i expected not to live past the age of 40. when i turned 50, i had my closest friends with me and i told them the story, that i saw an age i thought i would never reach. but that taught me the preciousness of life and it taught me that if i wasted any minute of my life that it would be in criminal. that's what has kept me going. every time i have wanted to give up or walk away i think to myself, you've got a gift of living, why in my throwing it away?

take joy fromn having you tell me my ass looks nice, i can smile. and that's all it takes in life is to look at a sad moment and at the same time remember a good time, because they exist, too. in the greatest of despair's, and i have had some of them, i go deep within my memory to find a moment of joy to keep me going. that's all i can ever say to people in hard times. it will pass. you almost have to ride it out and seek out that next moment. >> thank you. [applause]

>> i wonder what it was like growing up without your father, because i lost my mom when i was in fifth grade? book, butl read in my it was complex, because my dad's drinking problem had made our house very unhappy. my childhood was filled with spiting -- with fighting. when he died there was a mixture relief, because the fighting ended. i talk about in my book the first christmas without my dad. one of the things my dad and i had done every year was put up a christmas tree. and he knew how to put up the perfect tree. hidingld spend hours of

the wires of every single light. i have tried and i cannot do it. try it. but he did it perfectly. i remember standing back after i had finished the tree and i had picked a tree with a credit drunk so it looked like charlie brown and the peanuts' tree. i remember realizing that life is complex. there's no really good or bad in any situation. so it is a mixture. and that have your mom is something you will miss probably for the rest of your life. but you have our relationship with a data that a lot of other people will never experience. so it is always a mixture of good and bad. i don't forget the people i have

lost in my life. remember the moment of joy with them, to hold me through the next day. about at the end of my book when i was being sworn in as a justice. my mind raced all the people who had played a part in my life, including my grandmother who i loved. i could almost see them there. obviously, there were not there, but their spirits stayed with me. you know, you'll read in the book that my mom is a great, great lady, but she had to learn how to be a mom, too. she was not a perfect mom. moms, dads, perfect there's no perfect anything. there are no perfect daughters. what you learn is to look for the good of a human.

you hold on. yes? mining is alex, from colorado. alex. name is >> we should put a map appears like to know where everyone's from. >> how many hours of research in active duty as a justice per week for each case? [laughter] many. it's very complicated to explain, because i can tell you what process is, but i don't count the hours. it also depends on the case. cases areweeks before heard in court -- anywhere from six weeks to afford more weeks

before that, we get all of the greeks. with the briefed comes the record below. that can usually be a thin volume or multiple volumes. are onlys, -- briefs generally about 50 pages, but we tell people how to pack those pages, so it's usually 50 pages of words we have told them. sometimes it also you can have more than one brief on the same side. and you can have friends of court briefs. had thecases we have ones where those have been over 100. 35you do 100 times 25 to pages, that's a lot of reading. then we have to read the supreme court cases on the issue, because we have to study them.

we have to read any articles that we think are important that the parties have asked us to read. they could be hours and hours of reading. i call that research. i do their reading through the brief. and then my law clerks give me a with all the supreme court cases and all the materials. and i will have more reading then. and then we have argument. if you are talking about hours, it is days on each case. afterwards, when you are writing the opinion, if it's your opinion, weeks. because every opinion goes through draft after draft after draft. my law clerks tend to give me an opinion first and then i'd turn it around and then we go back and forth and back and forth until i'm satisfied.

and that is a lengthy process. even when the opinions come from my colleagues, if i am doing a dissent, that's a lot of work. if even if i'm saying i agree with you, i'm reading it and looking at what they are saying to make sure i'm happy with what they are saying. if i am not, then i negotiate with them. unlessnot have my vote you changed the sentence. all the judges here know what that is like. [laughter] drafting anything is very time- consuming. ok. >> i am mary and i go to st. mary's. i was wondering how you think as a nation we can overcome our differences in order to prevent conflict and violence? civilizationt

issue of around -- conflict between people over so many different issues has been with us since the beginning of man. i don't have the answer. and think that talking trying to understand the needs of other people is a good starting point. a lot of times we think we know what the other person is feeling. to them really listen trying to explain what they are the why.nd the way.-- and then we don't spend the time checking our own behavior to figure out if there are things that we can do to alter the dynamic. it is a complicated process. it is what i describe in my book as putting yourself in the shoes of the other person but.

t is only if you start there can you really start to think youhow everybody working together might be able to satisfy their different needs. conflict is unavoidable. what is not is the ability to listen and talk. in the end, we have to continue trying to do that. >> thank you. >> yes? >> hello. my name is debbie. i'm from russell middle school. i was wondering if you ever feel you have too much power? [laughter] >> yeah. one of the reasons i wrote my book is because when i got catapulted into this new life, and when i say catapulted i mean i went from the back of the room to the front of the room like overnight. i had no idea that i would be on

the world stage. i got worried. i am worried every day. how does it change you? power can corrupt. if you don't notice it, it will take you over. hard at i work really he trying to remain true to me, to still have fun, to still be with people as people and not because of my position. it's not so easy. one of the reasons i wrote my ifk is i wanted my friends they saw me getting too egotistical -- and i wrote a big book for that -- to take the book and hit me over the head. because the book is a thank you and in recognizing how much i got from others in becoming who i am.

that i keep trying to remember every day. there is something that can be can betoo much power -- too much power. yee adam arndt -- leslie aguilar. everybody has their own issues and something that blocks us from where we want to be in life. my parents have always told me that despite your problems, never let that take away your education, because your education is something powerful in your life and if you ever do that, then you have nothing in the world. i was wondering what is your motivation as a child growing up to become a as successful as you are today? >> that lesson from my mother. that lesson is the one that i got from my mother, too.

and your parents are right. education buys your future. you cannot do anything you want to do well, unless you become educated. i'm not criticizing them, but i will saythere's a lot of sports athletes who don't bother going to college. every time i see that, i think, what limited thinking. don't they know that in every sports game there are complicated strategies about how you play the game? game theory is applied in college to certain studies. if they went to college, they would play their game better. and that is true about almost anything, including being a singer, an author, an artist.

some of the best in the world. think of the people who won numerous oscars, like meryl streep. meryl streep is brilliant. she loves reading, she loves writing. this is a woman who has been educated to do her craft well. think of richard burton, who played shakespeare like he had lived in the age of shakespeare. my point being that education is the key. that is the key, because even if you cannot do one job, education permits you to do a lot of others. if you train for only one limited little thing, you can get stuck. but if you open your mind to learn more, you always -- there will always be opportunities. the day you hit a wall, if you have knowledge about the alternatives, you can think

about how do i go around the wall. i cannot do this. what is related to its that i might be able to do and still have fun with it? here they are going to love me -- me. listen to your parents. [applause] court.it please the >> ms. sotomayor. did she hits a home run or what? [cheers and applause] and all of you did in your questions. very thoughtful. you're wonderful. you deserve a round of applause, too. [applause] so now justice sotomayor, we

will transition to the learning center. you and i and two students. so let's go. >> thank you, sir. wow. pretty. >> thank you. >> can you hold that and give it to me? you guys ready? ok. 1, 2, 3. [applause] the learning center is open for everyone to see, have fun, and experience and you first have to start out

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