In his remarks on education, President Obama is careful to place equal emphasis on more spending and on more personal responsibility. By backing a call for community service, the president is clearly answering conservative critics, who feel that government cannot address all the problems contributing to the nation's education woes. He urges parents to "put away the video games" and applauds legislation in Congress that would help pay for public service programs. And he makes a personal appeal to students to go to college, a nod to the idea that money alone cannot solve the dropout problem.