4:10 > Biden is introduced wearing a dark suit, white shirt and light blue tie.

My paraphrase:

Isn’t it a sad state of affairs when you have to fight to raise Teacher’s Aid salaries up to the poverty level.

It takes all education personnel to make sure no child is left behind.

I understand my friend, the Gov. or New Mexico was here the other day and said he would appoint a teacher as Secretary of Education. I have one better. How about a teacher in the White House living with the president? (a reference to his wife who is a teacher) …

You can tell I live with a teacher … I’ve always gotta tell my wife to put the papers away that she’s grading.

Until you teach, you have no idea. People don’t get it.

Part of teaching is understanding their struggles. One student at a time is the only way to educate our kids. It’s about shining the light, opening new doors and helping students realize their potential.

Want to hold every child to the same test? Make sure you spend the same amount of money on every kid.

I guarantee you I will give you the tools you need … there will be no more blame the teachers excuse in a Biden administration.

Don’t tell me we can’t pay for it. Don’t tell me what you value – show me your budget and I’ll show you what you value.

You can’t tell me it’s a higher societal value to give a huge tax break to those who didn’t ask for it and whose average income is 1.45 million a year than education …. I can do it for less than 85 billion a year.

I have a detailed plan to end the war. This war must end. Everyone says we need a political solution. The only way it ends without chaos is to separate the factions and a political way forward.

My mother has an expression – “children tend to become that what we expect of them.” I want this country to expect a great deal from our children … high school graduation, access to a college education regardless of income.

Childen need more than test scores.

We need to start education early.

Pay teachers more.

Reduce class size.

Make high education available.

No more experts … you know what we need. A Child Is More Than A Test Score.

How can we expect our students to think critically and build a local economy if all we do is have them fill in bubbles and test their ability to take a test. You don’t teach children by testing them…. you test them after you’ve taught them.

Lower class size and support teachers – everyone says it … it means MORE TEACHER and PAY THEM MORE.

I have a plan to hire 100,000 new teachers in classrooms in America and pay them to do it.

That will cost a lot of money – $6 billion a year … no where near the $85 we spent on the tax cut for the very wealthy.

I’m giving you numbers because I’m not playing a game … I’m telling you how I’m going to do it.

In Japan the starting teacher salary is the same as the starting salary of an engineer . why not in America?

In my administration you will be cherished, not chastised.

In the Biden administration you will be valued and supported.

On a personal note … education for my wife and me was our ticket to freedom, independence, self-awareness and self-confidence. They can never take away your education.

There would be no shot of me standing before you, had my parents not sacrificed to give me an education. Making that available to all our children it essential to keep the faith for this generation and to leave them a better situation than we had for ourselves.

These are not someone else’s children … they are our children. And you are their hope. You deserve for our own sake, a lot more than you’ve been given.

My colleagues always kid me for quoting Irish poets … they thing I do because I am Irish. It’s not. It’s because they are the best poets … “History teaches us not to hope on this side of the grave, but then once in a lifetime that long forward tidal wave of justive rises up and hope and history rhyme.”

Join me in making hope and history rhyme for our children.