Michelle Obama urges students to aim high

In article todays from the LA Times the first lady says people from less privileged backgrounds can succeed, using herself as an example.

In launching an international agenda of outreach to young people, First Lady Michelle Obama on Wednesday addressed students at a Jesuit college in Mexico with emotional remarks that were part confessional, part call to action.

Obama, a Princeton alumna with a Harvard law degree, told students that she entered college "filled with self-doubt."

She said she and President Obama came from families that were not wealthy, yet they prevailed despite "the sting of low expectations, the constant doubts about whether we could succeed, and whether we were even worth the effort."

I personally am so glad to see such an outreach to youth in general by the Obama Administration. Michelle Obama is a perfect example of someone who aimed high and accomplished great things, and now she is advocating for today's youth to do the same.

"Today, we're seeing what has come to be called a 'youth bulge,' an explosion of the youth population in nations around the world," Obama said. "And the fact is that responsibility for meeting the defining challenges of our time will soon fall to all of you."

Obama told the students that she intended to focus her international work on engaging young people.

In the coming years we will see how much youth outreach is actually done and how empowered youth are with this Administration but for now I say they are off to a good start.