. -- and arnie duncan, top to bottom. am i to close? pmi you can do whatever you want. >> that would be great. >> -- you can do whatever you want. >> that would be great. if you have not seen the president's interviews that he did yesterday with both "the wall street journal," cnbc, besides killing a fly on cnbc, his basic premise is when he came into office, the economy of the last 20 years had lived through a series of bubbles, which is where we got our growth, but then there is the cost of that. we had to have a more sustainable strategy and package that were essential for steady, long-term growth. that there were a number of basically game changers that prevented that economic growth. rattling them off -- field of energy, education and job training, health care, what i would call basically the research and development, that whole space, which is one of the notes i would make in the economic recovery act, the dramatic research and research -- the dramatic increase in research and development. we have leapfrogged in certain areas like

one of the best examples i can think of this arnie duncan, education secretary, we're not paying a lot of attention to him at the moment. there's a story a few days ago of how they're going to spend $5 billion in stimulus money to take over 5000 a troubled schools around the country. the federal government is interacting with local schools on a scale that would have been politically defining just a few years ago. that is now something that has slipped on by just unnoticed. that has enormous implications. it has implications for education and many other things as well. the key to all of this is i think the culture of chaos and the question of how long it will last i think is an important one and determining the dynamic between the president and the success of these big initiatives -- and in ports and one in determining the dynamic between the president and the success of these big initiatives. as a size of the economy starting to stabilize, you can already see the power of destruction taking hold, for instance, the nancy pelosi story this week and revisiting this question and rather hea

being led by the administration and arnie duncan. whatever you want would be great. exactly what a middle child like me would love to see happen. if you haven't seen the president's interviews he did with the wall street journal, nbc, besides killing the fly, his basic premise, when we came into office, was the economy over the last 20 years lived through a series of bubbles which is where we got our growth. we had to have a more sustainable economic growth strategy and package that were essential for steady, long-term growth. there were a number of game changers that prevent the bad economic growth. rattle them off in this field of energy, education/job-training, health-care, what i would call for research and development, that whole space. which is one of the notes i would make in the economic recovery act, dramatic increase in research and development, we have leapfrogged in certain areas like a car battery, the research that is going on, just in that area, the national institute of public health and dramatic increase that has not been seen since the 90s. basic fu

him questions in the oval office about violence that might happen and violence but at that point had arnie happen. i think again with to see from ahmadinejad is probably right out of the regime's playbook. they were going to in many ways there were going to try to do this regardless of what we sen. i think the president in many ways to dispose seven mr. ahmadinejad and language from the past couple of days as the press earlier appear in. i think he has done what he needs to do to ensure that he doesn't become a foil by the regime and i think that has been reported by many of your outlets from people believing that and iran. ..

i secretary of education, arnie, he is obsess with improving our education system. his focus 100% on it. he thinks that teachers are the most important ingredient in schools. we're going to do what it -- what we can to make sure teachers do a good job, eliminate things that keep them from doing a good job. some of this will require more money, so in our recovery act we had money for improving curriculum, teacher training, recruitment, a lot of these things. you cannot just put more money in with a reform, says some of it is demanding more accountability and more reform. the other ingredient is parents. [applause] we need parents putting more emphasis on education with our kids. that is how we're all going to be able to pick up our game. i have time for one more question, and i'm going to go with this young lady. >> we followed you in the campaign rally in september. i took my 5-year-old -- 5-month- old son. you told my son he was adorable, i do not know if you remember. >> i can sign that for you. i'll be happy to sign it, but let's get another question. everyone is

and arnie duncan my secretary of education, this guy is just obsessed with improving our education system. he is focused 100% on it. and he is completely committed to teachers. we think that teachers are the most important ingredient in good schools. we're going to do whatever works to help teachers do a better job. [applause] >> we're going to eliminate those things that don't help teachers do a good job. [applause] >> some of its going to require more money. so in our recovery act we had more money for improving curriculums, teacher training, recruitment, a lot of these things. but you can't just put more money without reform. so some of its demanding more accountability and more reform. there's one other ingredient, though, and that is parents. we've got to have parents. [cheers and applause] >> -- putting more emphasis on education with our kids. that's how we're all going to be able to pick up our game. [applause] >> so, all right. i've got time for one more question. and i'm going to go with this young lady right here who's got a picture of me, i guess. [laughter] >> very strong sup

i would rebuild the educational infrastructure of i had the resources, and frankly, i think arnie duncan does have the resources and this is something that we ought to see so that schools on the south and west side should look more like palaces of learning and less like 19th century factories or prinze. that should be invested in. the main thing would do is invest in teachers. the dumbing down, the kind of hammering teachers into cards in a bureaucracy, treat teachers as if they are mid lifestyle bureaucrats in a machine is a huge mistake. i want any kids, my grandkids now to have in the classroom an intel legal talkly curl you, well paid, well rested teacher at the center of their lives. if we don't invest in that we lose the stabilities of the teaching corps, people staying in it for 10, 20, 30 years. we lose the kind of accumulated wisdom that comes, the institutional memory as well as a community of wisdom that comes from that. so investing in teachers is huge and treating teachers like professionals. they need to have the where n wherewithal the structures and support to meet with o

i think one of the best examples i can think of is arnie duncan, the education secretary, a lot of us in that our troubled business are not paying a lot of attention to and at the moment. there is a story of a few days ago of how they were going to spend the i think about $5 billion in stimulus money to take over for a 5,000 troubled schools around the country. if you think about that is the federal government interacting with local schools on a scale that would have been sort of politically defining just a few years ago, is now something that kind of slumped by almost unnoticed but with enormous implications down the road for education and many other things as well. the -- really the key to all of this is the culture of chaos and the question of how long it will last is i think in a poor and one in determining the dynamic between and the president and the congress and of the success of the initiatives that have come to fruition yet, namely health care reform. as signs of the economy seeming to stabilize, you can already see the power of distraction taking hold in for instance nancy p