【正文】 hing important to discuss with ’m here because I want to talk with you about your education and what’s expected of all of you in this new school 。我多次談到過責任問題。But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, the best schools in the worldand none of it will make a difference, none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities, unless you show up to those schools, unless you pay attention to those teachers, unless you listen to your parents and grandparents and other adults and put in the hard work it takes to ’s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your ，即使我們擁有最敬業(yè)的教師，最盡力的家長和全世界最好的學?！绻銈兇蠹也宦男心銈兊呢熑?，不到校上課，不專心聽講，不聽家長、祖父祖母和其他大人的話，不付出取得成功所必須的勤奮努力，那么這一切都毫無用處，都無關緊要。你們每個人都能做出自己的貢獻。你或許能成為一名創(chuàng)新者或發(fā)明家——甚至可能設計出新一代iPhone或研制出新型藥物或疫苗——但你可能要在完成科學課的實驗后才會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才華。你不能指望輟學后能碰上個好工作。美國的未來取決于你們。你們將需要利用你們在所有課堂上培養(yǎng)的創(chuàng)造力和智慧來創(chuàng)辦新公司，增加就業(yè)機會，振興我們的經(jīng)濟。我知道你們許多人在生活中面臨挑戰(zhàn)，難以集中精力從事學業(yè)。有時，我渴望生活中能有一位父親。But I wasI was got a lot of second chances, and I had the opportunity to go to college and law school and follow my wife, our First Lady Michelle Obama, she has a similar of her parents had gone to college, and they didn’t have a lot of they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this ，我當年際遇不錯。但他們非常勤奮，她也是如此，因此她得以進入一些美國最好的學校。或許你們生活在使你們感覺不安全的社區(qū)，或有朋友逼迫你們?nèi)プ瞿銈冎啦粚Φ氖虑?。Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end one’s written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own make your own 。標。也許你會決定更好地照料自己，以便有更充沛的精力來學習。I know that sometimes you get that sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard workthat your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV are you’re not going to be any of those ：你不用做任何艱苦的工作就能發(fā)財致富并取得成功，唱小調(diào)、打籃球或成為真人秀明星是走向成功的途徑。你不會與你的每一位老師都很投契。世界上最成功的人士中有一些是遭遇失敗最多的人。但他曾說過：“在我的一生中，我失敗了一次又一次、一次又一次。因此，如果你遇到麻煩，那并不表示你是麻煩的制造者，而意味著你需要更加努力去把它做對。第一次從事新的體育項目時，你不可能是一位主力隊員。你可能要把一道數(shù)。你必須練習。No one’s born being good at all bee good at things through hard ’re not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new don’t hit every note the first time you sing a ’ve got to same principle applies to your might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it might have to read something a few times before you understand definitely have to do a few drafts of a paper before it’s good enough to hand ?！盩hese people succeeded because they understood that you can’t let your failures define youyou have to let your failures teach have to let them show you what to do differently the next if you get into trouble, that doesn’t mean you’re a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to act you get a bad grade, that doesn’t mean you’re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time ，因為他們懂得：你不能讓失敗來限制你，而必須讓失敗來開導你。邁克爾?喬丹（Michael Jordan）曾被他的高中籃球隊除名。你第一次嘗試做每件事的時候，不一定成功。The truth is, being successful is won’t love every subject that you won’t click with every teacher that you every homework assignment will seem pletely relevant to your life right at this you won’t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you ，取得成功不是輕而易舉的事情。But whatever you resolve to do, I want you to mit to want you to really work at ，我希望你保證去做。也許你會決定要參加課外活動或在你的社區(qū)提供志愿服務。你們掌握自己的未來。你們沒有理由不服從你們的老師、逃學、或輟學。或許你們生活中沒有成年人為你們提供你們所需要的支持。我的妻子，我們的第一夫人米歇爾?奧巴馬，也有著類似的經(jīng)歷。So I wasn’t always as focused as I should have been on school, and I did some things I’m not proud of, and I got in more trouble than I should my life could have easily taken a turn for the ，我也曾做過我如今不能引以為豪的一些事情，我曾惹過不應該惹的麻煩。我有親身感受。如果你們不這樣做，如果你們輟學，你們不僅僅是自暴自棄，也是拋棄自己的國家。You’ll need the knowledge and problemsolving 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。白宮立刻答復說，他們會提前一天把奧巴馬的講話上傳到白宮網(wǎng)址上，讓老師和家長先看講話全文。老布什那次講話的全部花費是2萬7000美元。1991年，老布什總統(tǒng)在首都華盛頓一所高中發(fā)表向全國直播的演說，主要內(nèi)容是要求學生努力學習，拒絕毒品。前車之鑒自80年代以來，曾有兩位共和黨籍總統(tǒng)到公立學校，向全美學生發(fā)表講話，無一例外都受到了廣泛批評和無情嘲弄。這樣做無異于把聯(lián)邦政府的職能強加給公立學校，屬于明顯的“權力越位”。在這些家長的強烈反對下，德州幾個最大的學區(qū)決定，不讓孩子當天在學校觀看奧巴馬的講話。從馬里蘭州到德克薩斯州，到處都有不滿的家長表示反對奧巴馬對他們的孩子發(fā)表講話。奧巴馬8月初在白宮接受一名11歲小學生的采訪，忘記了這個政壇禁忌。（掌聲）原文鏈接：://[+45] [1] [回復]huangjinrui 舉報總統(tǒng)為何不能給學生演講？（20090910）● 鐘布（美國賓州）美國總統(tǒng)奧巴馬9月8日中午對全美公立學校在校生發(fā)表電視講話，勉勵他