Finish line at the Boston Marathon on that fateful day not too long ago. Adjunct professor at the army war college. It is my pleasure to introduce jonathan elias. Jonathan as a professor of the war college, i get senior command. You are all youngsters. I can say that because i am older than you. Will see you now when you get your captains in your kernels going and then i will see you in my class and i will get to be you are proper. Major inistory college, fascinated by history, grew up in a military family. In my business, it is kind of weird. The News Business is the only profession protected by the constitution and yet it is the only profession where you dont need a license or have to prove how intelligent you are at all. You just gone front of the camera or pick up a pen and start writing and that is the name of the game. Now,e in a wartime stance we have been for many years. They get bent out of shape when they say this happens and we lost five men. World war ii was the early where
If you want to defeat the likelihood that your military will have to go to war, make it a military that will never lose any more. [applause] and the 21st century work will be about skills. When my parents came here, they had no skills. They had the equivalent of fourth grade, maybe six grade for my mother. That they lived in a country where despite not having advanced education, you could make it to the middle class. That is increasingly difficult. You know that. It is increasingly difficult to find a middle income job without advanced education. And we in this country have a Higher Education system that is not of this century, but the last. Why are we not graduating kids from high school certified as welders and electricians and bmw mechanics . [applause] why do we have a onesizefitsall Higher Education system where unless you are a 19 theyearold High School Graduate who can go to school fulltime, its really difficult to get the skills you need . Why are we making it difficult for the
To hear from women about how your opportunities today compared to the opportunities your mother had when she was growing up. What challenges to mothers and women still face in those areas he echo in those areas . If you are in the eastern or central time zone email us at journal cspan. Org. A very good mothers day to you. Opportunities compared to those of your mother . It was a subject taken up in a series of essays today. The headline of those essays in this piece in the Washington Post one other piece in that is by the d. C. Police chief here in washington dc. She writes just two of the pieces you can find in todays Washington Post. We are opening up the question to our viewers, how do your opportunities compared to that of your mother . We are talking to female viewers only read our phone lines are open. Before we get to your calls, a few stats from the pew research. Enter a report came out last week and noted there were fewer of todays moms that are married. 69 . Ed moms account f
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