【正文】 hard in school, because an education has never been more important than it is ’m sure there are going to be times in the months ahead when you’re staying up late doing your homework or cramming for a test, or you’re dragging yourself out of bed on a rainy morning and you’re thinking, oh, boy, I wish maybe it was a snow day.(Laughter.)But let me tell you, what you’re doing is worth is nothing more important than what you’re doing right is going to have as great an impact on your success in life as your education, how you’re doing in and more, the kinds of opportunities that are open to you are going to be determined by how far you go in farther you go in school, the farther you’re going to go in at a time when other countries are peting with us like never before, when students around the world in Beijing, China, or Bangalore, India, are working harder than ever, and doing better than ever, your success in school is not just going to determine your success, it’s going to determine America’s success in the 21st you’ve got an obligation to yourselves, and America has an obligation to you, to make sure you’re getting the best education making sure you get that kind of education is going to take all of us working hard and all of us working hand in takes all of us in governmentfrom the governor to the mayor to the superintendent to the Presidentall of us doing our part to prepare our students, all of them, for success in the classroom and in college and in a ’s going to take an outstanding principal, like Principal Neff, and outstanding teachers like the ones you have here at Mastermanteachers who are going above and beyond the call of duty for their it’s going to take parents who are mitted to your , that’s what we have to do for ’s our ’s our you’ve got a job, ’ve got to show up to school on ’ve got to pay attention in your ’ve got to do your ’ve got to study for ’ve got to stay out of ’ve got to instill a sense of excellence in everything that you kind of discipline, that kind of drive, that kind of hard work, is absolutely essential for I can speak from experience here because unlike Kelly, I can’t say I always had this , I can tell she was always wasn’t always wasn’t always the best student when I was made my share of still remember a conversation I had with my mother in high was kind of a I was about the age of some of the folks my grades were hadn’t started my college was acting, as my mother put it, sort of casual about my was doing good was smart enough that I could kind of get I wasn’t really applying so I suspect this is a conversation that will sound familiar to some students and some parents here decided to sit me down and said I had to change my attitude was what I imagine every teenager’s attitude is when your parents have a conversation with you like was like, you know, I don’t need to hear all ’m doing okay, I’m not flunking I started to say that, and she just cut me right said, you can’t just sit around waiting for luck to see you said, you can get into any school you want in the country if you just put in a little bit of gave me a hard look and she said, you remember what that’s like? Effort?(Laughter.)Some of you have had that conversation.(Laughter.)And it was pretty jolting hearing my mother say eventually her words had the intended effect, because I got serious about my I started to make an effort in everything that I I began to see my grades and my prospects I know that if hard work could make the difference for me, then it can make a difference for all of I know that there may be some people who are skeptical about you may wonder if some people just aren’t better at certain know, well, I’m not good at math or I’m just not really interested in my science it is true that we each have our own gifts, we each have our own talents that we have to discover and everybody is going to catch on in certain subjects as easily as just because you’re not the best at something today doesn’t mean you can’t be if you don’t think of yourself as a math person or a science person, you can still excel in those subjects if you’re willing to make the you may find out you have talents you never dreamed one of the things I’ve discovered is excellingwhether it’s in school or in lifeisn’t mainly about being smarter than everybody ’s not really the secret to ’s about working harder than everybody don’t avoid new challengesseek them out, step out of your fort zone, don’t be afraid to ask for teachers and family are there to guide want to know if you’re not catching on to something because they know that if you keep on working at it, you’re going to catch ’t feel discouraged。第一篇：奧巴馬開(kāi)學(xué)演講2010年9月14日，奧巴馬來(lái)到位于賓州費(fèi)城的一所中學(xué)進(jìn)行了他第二次的中學(xué)演講。don’t give up if you don’t succeed at something the first again, and learn from your ’t feel threatened if your friends are doing well。正如中國(guó)的古話：天生我才必有用。他說(shuō)的很對(duì)，不管我們將來(lái)想要做什么，我們都需要相應(yīng)的教育。我們的未來(lái)，并不取決于我們現(xiàn)在的狀況有多好或多壞。還有賈斯敏、安多尼和香特爾與我們沒(méi)有什么不同。我們不可能對(duì)要讀的每門(mén)課程都興趣盎然，我們不可能和每名帶課教師都相處順利，我們也不可能每次都遇上看起來(lái)和現(xiàn)實(shí)生活有關(guān)的作業(yè)。《哈利從失敗中，你可以明白下一次自己可以做出怎樣的改變；假如你惹了什么麻煩，那并不說(shuō)明你就是個(gè)搗蛋貴，而是在提醒你，在將來(lái)要對(duì)自己有更嚴(yán)格的要求；假如你考了個(gè)低分，那并不說(shuō)明你就比別人笨，而是在告訴你，自己得在學(xué)習(xí)上花更多的時(shí)間。這都是很正常的?？仗摵图拍粦?yīng)是青春的主旋律。You can do it!We Are What We LearnHello, everybody!Thank you, right, everybody go ahead and have a is everybody doing today? How about Tim Spicer? I am here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, we39。re a little imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right nowwith just one more year to no matter what grade you39。t too happy about getting up that a lot of times, I39。m here today because I have something important to discuss with 39。ve talked about responsibility a 39。 responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and you get your homework done, and don39。t working, where students aren39。s the opportunity an education can 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