We should think about our teachers in the same way. So, again, I challenge you to help your colleagues develop the enormous potential of America's greatest resource-and we all know that our greatest resource is not technology, but our children. I also have a challenge for the entrepreneurs and businessmen and -women here today. Every child learns in a different way, so I invite businesses to develop technology that can revolutionize education by helping teachers to offer individual instruction for every student. Technology can also offer opportunities for gifted students to learn at their own pace and explore advanced studies.
Most parents believe that their children are special and deserve individual instruction.
And they are right. So there is a great demand for effective educational technology. You can be sure that if you develop software that helps children learn to read, you will have parents and teachers flooding your Web site. If you design technology to improve math and science instruction, an area in which we are struggling to keep up with other nations, it could be not only a shrewd business move but also a great act of public service. And I can tell you that students in other countries are very eager to learn English, so there could be huge demand internationally for programs that teach English.