His speech was over an hour long, and not once did I look at my watch to see how much longer I d been sitting in Kirkland. I found it disconcerting when he said that to fix the societal problems in the United States we should cut funding to jails, kick the 10 percent of children who are troublemakers out of school and then fight for the traditional family of man, woman, children, junior Bruce Fruchtl said. Powell said we should kick these kids out of school, but he didn t offer any alternatives about what to do with them, he continued. Powell also responded to questions from students after the keynote address, including one regarding his personal setbacks. Everyday there is an opportunity for failure, Powell said.
Failure is the way to gain experience.
Expect failure as a normal part of life. He did a wonderful job tying in his stories to examples from his careers in the military and politics, Carrigan said. This statistic is six percent higher than the national average of 69 percent. It was pretty predictable, she said. The CORE survey, a 39-question form sent to approximately half of Millikin students last spring, was developed at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.