【正文】 打心底里希望現(xiàn)在還在放暑假，以及今天不用那么早起床。每當(dāng)我埋怨的時(shí)候，我媽總會(huì)用同一副表情看著我說(shuō)：“小鬼，你以為教你我就很輕松？” 所以，我可以理解你們中的許多人對(duì)于開學(xué)還需要時(shí)間來(lái)調(diào)整和適應(yīng)，但今天我站在這里，是為了和你們談一些重要的事情。我談到過(guò)家長(zhǎng)們有責(zé)任看管你們認(rèn)真學(xué)習(xí)、完成作業(yè)，不要成天只會(huì)看電視或打游戲機(jī)。而這就是我今天講話的主題：對(duì)于自己的教育，你們中每一個(gè)人的責(zé)任?；蛟S你能寫出優(yōu)美的文字——甚至有一天能讓那些文字出現(xiàn)在書籍和報(bào)刊上——但假如不在英語(yǔ)課上經(jīng)常練習(xí)寫作，你不會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)自己有這樣的天賦；或許你能成為一個(gè)發(fā)明家、創(chuàng)造家——甚至設(shè)計(jì)出像今天的iPhone一樣流行的產(chǎn)品，或研制出新的藥物與疫苗——但假如不在自然科學(xué)課程上做上幾次實(shí)驗(yàn)，你不會(huì)知道自己有這樣的天賦；或許你能成為一名議員或最高法院法官，但假如你不去加入什么學(xué)生會(huì)或參加幾次辯論賽，你也不會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才能。今天你們?cè)趯W(xué)校中學(xué)習(xí)的內(nèi)容，將會(huì)決定我們整個(gè)國(guó)家在未來(lái)迎接重大挑戰(zhàn)時(shí)的表現(xiàn)。當(dāng)然，我明白，讀好書并不總是件容易的事。因此我并不總是能專心學(xué)習(xí)，我做過(guò)許多自己覺(jué)得丟臉的事情，也惹出過(guò)許多不該惹的麻煩，我的生活岌岌可危，隨時(shí)可能急轉(zhuǎn)直下。奧巴馬了——也有著相似的人生故事，她的父母都沒(méi)讀過(guò)大學(xué)，也沒(méi)有什么財(cái)產(chǎn)，但他們和她都辛勤工作，好讓她[本_文_來(lái)_源_于_我_的_學(xué)_習(xí)_網(wǎng) for me either, buster.“(Laughter.)So I know that some of you are still adjusting to being back at I39。ve given a lot of speeches about I39。ve talked about your parents39。s responsibility for setting high standards, and supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren39。re good single one of you has something to you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that 39。re going to need a good education for every single one of those cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good 39。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 39。re not just quitting on yourself, you39。t always able to give us the things that other kids were times when I missed having a father in my were times when I was lonely and I felt like I didn39。t have a lot of they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this of you might not have those you don39。t at the end of the day, the circumstances of your lifewhat you look like, where you e from, how much money you have, what you39。ll end one39。m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who39。s Shantell Steve, from my hometown of Chicago, when bouncing from foster home to foster home in the toughest neighborhoods in the city, she managed to get a job at a local health care center, start a program to keep young people out of gangs, and she39。s why today I39。ll decide to take better care of yourself so you can be more ready to along those lines, by the way, I hope all of you are washing your hands a lot, and that you stay home from school when you don39。t click with every teacher that you every homework assignment will seem pletely relevant to your life right at this you won39。swho wrote Harry Potterher first Harry Potter book was rejected 12 times before it was finally Jordan was cut from his high school basketball 。s of the most successful people in the world are the ones who39。re not going to be any of those truth is, being successful is won39。ll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your you39。t any different from any of face challenges in their lives just like you some cases they39。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 39。s what young people like you are doing every day, all across people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, didn39。s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of is no excuse for not you are right now doesn39。s not enough money to go you live in a neighborhood where you don39。t always as focused as I should have been on school, and I did some things I39。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 get know what it39。ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new panies that will create new jobs and boost our need every single one of you to develop your talents and your skills and your intellect so you can help us old folks solve our most difficult you don39。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 you39。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 no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you39。t getting the opportunities that they 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 39。t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with the 39。ve talked about teachers39。m here because I want to talk with you about your education and what39。我在許多事上都得到了重來(lái)的機(jī)會(huì)，我得到了去大學(xué)讀法學(xué)院、實(shí)現(xiàn)自己夢(mèng)想的機(jī)會(huì)。我知道你們的感受。我們需要你們中的每一個(gè)人都培養(yǎng)和發(fā)展自己的天賦、技能和才智，來(lái)解決我們所面對(duì)的最困難的問(wèn)題。——你想當(dāng)名醫(yī)生、當(dāng)名教師或當(dāng)名警官？你想成為護(hù)士、成為建筑設(shè)計(jì)師、律師或軍人？無(wú)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(mèng)，任何工作，都需要你的汗水、訓(xùn)練與學(xué)習(xí)。你們中的每一個(gè)人都會(huì)有自己擅長(zhǎng)的東西，每一個(gè)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(duì)自己擔(dān)起的責(zé)任。但哪怕這一切都達(dá)到最好，哪怕我們有最盡職的教師、最好的家長(zhǎng)、和最優(yōu)秀的學(xué)校，假如你們不去履行自己的責(zé)任的話，那么這一切努力都會(huì)白費(fèi)。我做過(guò)許多關(guān)于教育的講話，也常常用到“責(zé)任”這個(gè)詞。小時(shí)候，我們家在印度尼西亞住過(guò)幾年，而我媽媽沒(méi)錢送我去其他美國(guó)孩子們上學(xué)的地方去讀書，因此她決定自己給我上課——時(shí)間是每周一到周五的凌晨4點(diǎn)半。我知道，對(duì)你們中的許多人來(lái)說(shuō)，今天是開學(xué)的第一天，你們中的有一些剛剛進(jìn)入幼兒園或升上初高中，對(duì)你們來(lái)說(shuō)，這是在新學(xué)校的第一天，因此，假如你們感到有些緊張，那也是很正常的。部分媒體還批評(píng)奧巴馬試圖建立個(gè)人崇拜。未來(lái)在你自己手中，生活由自己締造。這就需要我們有一個(gè)杰出的校長(zhǎng)，像校長(zhǎng)Neff，和優(yōu)秀的老師，正如你們的馬斯特曼的老師們。你們?cè)趯W(xué)校的成功并不只決定了自己一人的成功，還決定了美國(guó)在21世界是否能夠成功。More 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 eve