【正文】 ing skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our ’ll need the insights and criticalthinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more ’ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new panies that will create new jobs and boost our 、艾滋病及其他疾病，開發(fā)新的能源技術(shù)和保護我們的環(huán)境。And this isn’t just important for your own life and your own you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this future of America depends on you’re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the 。And no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you’ll need an education to do want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? You’re going to need a good education for every single one of those cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good ’ve got to train for it and work for it and learn for ，我敢肯定你必須上學讀書才能實現(xiàn)它。而教育能夠提供這樣的機會。I want to start with the responsibility you have to single one of you has something that you’re good single one of you has something to you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that ’s the opportunity an education can 。I’ve talked about your parents’ responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and you get your homework done, and don’t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with the ，要確保你們走正路，完成家庭作業(yè)，不要整天坐在電視前或玩Xbox游戲。我來這里是要和你們談談你們的教育問題，以及在這個新學年對你們所有人的期望。有很多次，我趴在餐桌上就睡著了。我媽媽沒有錢送我上其他美國孩子上的學校，但她認為必須讓我接受美式教育。不論在哪個年級，你們有些人可能希望暑假更長一點，今天早上還能多睡一小會兒。請為你們自己熱烈鼓掌。斯派塞（Tim Spicer）好嗎？（掌聲）我現(xiàn)在與弗吉尼亞州阿靈頓郡韋克菲爾德高中的學生們在一起。謝謝你們。謝謝你們大家。美國各地從小學預備班到中學12年級的學生正在收聽收看。（掌聲）I know that for many of you, today is the first day of for those of you in kindergarten, or starting middle or high school, it’s your first day in a new school, so it’s understandable if you’re a little imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right now(applause)with just one more year to no matter what grade you’re in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer and you could’ve stayed in bed just a little bit longer this ，今天是你們很多人開學的日子。I know that I was young, my family lived lived in Indonesia for a few my mother, she didn’t have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school, but she thought it was important for me to keep up with an American she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through because she had to go to work, the only time she could do it was at 4:30 in the 。因此，她決定從周一到周五自己給我補課。但每當我抱怨的時候，我媽媽都會那樣地看我一眼，然后說：“小子，這對我也并不輕松。Now, I’ve given a lot of speeches about I’ve talked about responsibility a 。I’ve talked a lot about your government’s responsibility for setting high standards, and supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren’t working, where students aren’t getting the opportunities that they ，要制定高標準，支持教師和校長的工作，徹底改善不能為學生提供應有機會的、教育質(zhì)量差的學校。你們每個人都有自己的長處。Maybe you could be a great writermaybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaperbut you might not know it until you write that English paperthat English class paper that’s assigned to you could be an innovator or an inventormaybe even good enough to e up with the next iPhone or the new medicine or vaccinebut you might not know it until you do your project for your science you could be a mayor or a senator or a Supreme Court justicebut you might not know that until you join student government or the debate ——甚至可能寫書或在報紙上發(fā)表文章——但你可能要在完成那篇英文課的作文后才會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才華。你想當醫(yī)生、教師或警官嗎？你想當護士、建筑師、律師或軍人嗎？你必須接受良好的教育，才能從事上述任何一種職業(yè)?？梢院敛豢浯蟮卣f，教育給你帶來的益處將決定這個國家的未來。你們將需要利用你們在歷史學和社會學課堂上所獲得的知識和獨立思考能力來抗擊貧困和解決無家可歸問題，打擊犯罪和消除歧視，使我們的國家更公平、更自由。Now, I know it’s not always easy to do well in know a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on your 。兩歲時，我父親離家而去，我是由一位單親母親撫養(yǎng)成人的，母親不得不工作，并時常為支付生活費用而苦苦掙扎，但有時仍無法為我們提供其他孩子享有的東西。我的人生原本會輕易陷入更糟糕的境地。她的父母都未曾上過大學，家里很窮。或許你們家中有人失業(yè)，經(jīng)濟非常拮據(jù)。沒有理由不付出努力。That’s what young people like you are doing every day, all across ，全美各地都是如此。I’m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who’s fought brain cancer since he was ’s had to endure all sorts of treatments and surgeries, one of which affected his memory, so it took him much longerhundreds of extra hoursto do his he never fell ’s headed to college this 舒爾茨（Andoni Schultz），他從三歲開始就一直與腦癌進行抗爭，他不得不忍受各類治療和手術(shù)帶來的痛苦，其中一項手術(shù)曾影響了他的記憶，因此他花在功課上的時間比一般人長得多，要多出數(shù)百個小時。她曾在芝加哥最困難的社區(qū)生活，寄養(yǎng)于多個不同的家庭，但她最終在一家地方醫(yī)療中心找到工作，并開始了一項幫助年輕人遠離流氓團伙的計劃，她即將以優(yōu)異成績從中學畢業(yè)，緊接著將上大學。但他們拒絕放棄。你的目標可以是一件十分簡單的事情，例如完成家庭作業(yè)、上課專心聽講、或每天花一點時間讀一本書。順便提一下，除了這些事情外，我希望大家要勤洗手，身體感到不舒服的時候要呆在家里不去上學，這樣我們能防止人們在今年秋冬季節(jié)染上流感。但實際情況是：你可能不會成為其中的一員。不是所有的家庭作業(yè)似乎都與你眼前的生活完全有關。（）所寫的系列小說《哈利 波特》（Harry Potter）第一部在獲得出版之前被退稿12次。這就是我成功的原因。如果你有一門課分數(shù)低，那不表示你比別人笨，而只表示你需要花更多的時間學習。第一次唱一首歌曲時，你不可能唱準每個音。你可能要把一些材料閱讀幾遍才能理解。我天天請求別人的幫助。The story of America isn’t about people who quit when things got ’s about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their ，而是堅持不懈、加倍努力的人，他們對國家的愛促使他們?nèi)σ愿?。至?0年前坐在你們的位置上的學生，他們創(chuàng)辦了谷歌（Google）、嘰喳網(wǎng)（Twitter）和臉譜網(wǎng)（Facebook），改變了我們交流溝通的方式。因此，我希望你們大家從今年起認真對待這個問題。不要讓你們的家人或你們的國家失望。愿主保佑美國。我知道，對你們中的許多人來說，今天是開學的第一天，你們中的有一些剛剛進入幼兒園或升上初高中，對你們來說，這是在新學校的第一天，因此，假如你們感到有些緊張，那也是很正常的。小時候，我們家在印度尼西亞住過幾年，而我媽媽沒錢送我去其他美國孩子們上學的地方去讀書，因此她決定自己給我上課——時間是每周一到周五的凌晨4點半。我做過許多關于教育的講話，也常常用到“責任”這個詞。但哪怕這一切都達到最好，哪怕我們有最盡職的教師、最好的家長、和最優(yōu)秀的學校，假如你們不去履行自己的責任的話，那么這一切努力都會白費。你們中的每一個人都會有自己擅長的東西，每一個人都是有用之材，而發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才能是什么，就是你們要對自己擔起的責任?！阆氘斆t(yī)生、當名教師或當名警官？你想成為護士、成為建筑設計師、律師或軍人？無論你選擇哪一種職業(yè)，良好的教育都必不可少，這世上不存在不把書念完就能拿到好工作的美夢，任何工作，都需要你的汗水、訓練與學習。我們需要你們中的每一個人都培養(yǎng)和發(fā)展自己的天賦、技能和才智，來解決我們所面對的最困難的問題。我知道你們的感受。我在許多事上都得到了重來的機會，我得到了去大學讀法學院、實現(xiàn)自己夢想的機會。你的未來，并不取決于你現(xiàn)在的生活有多好或多壞。剛進學校時，她根本不會說英語，她住的地方幾乎沒人上過大學，她的父母也沒有受過高等教育，但她努力學習，取得了優(yōu)異的成績，靠獎學金進入了布朗大學，