【正文】 ng his career. But he once said, I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that39。t click with every teacher that you have. Not every homework assignment will seem pletely relevant to your life right at this minute. And you won39。ll decide to take better care of yourself so you can be more ready to learn. And 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。s why today I39。re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you, don39。t a sign of weakness, it39。ve got to practice. The same principle applies to your schoolwork. You might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right. You might have to read something a few times before you understand it. You definitely have to do a few drafts of a paper before it39。re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying.No one39。t let your failures define you you have to let your failures teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently the next time. So if you get into trouble, that doesn39。s okay. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who39。re not going to be any of those things.The truth is, being successful is hard. You won39。ll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your munity. Maybe you39。t any different from any of you. They face challenges in their lives just like you do. In some cases they39。s had to endure all sorts of treatments and surgeries, one of which affected his memory, so it took him much longer hundreds of extra hours to do his schoolwork. But he never fell behind. He39。s what young people like you are doing every day, all across America.Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, Texas. Jazmin didn39。s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. There is no excuse for not trying.Where you are right now doesn39。s not enough money to go around. Maybe 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 school. I know a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on your schoolwork.I get it. I 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 economy.We 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 problems. If you don39。t just important for your own life and your own future. What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. The future of America depends on you. What you39。s assigned to you. Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor maybe even good enough to e up with the next iPhone or the new medicine or vaccine but you might not know it until you do your project for your science class. Maybe you could be a mayor or a senator or a Supreme Court justice but you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team.And no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you39。t getting the opportunities that they deserve.But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, the best schools in the world and 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 succeed. That39。t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with the Xbox.I39。ve talked about teachers39。m here because I want to talk with you about your education and what39。d fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. But whenever I39。re in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer and you could39。ve got students tuning in from all across America, from kindergarten through 12th grade. And I am just so glad that all could join us today. And I want to thank Wakefield for being such an outstanding host. Give yourselves a big round of applause. (Applause.)I know that for many of you, today is the first day of school. And for those of you in kindergarten, or starting middle or high school, it39。S SCHOOLCHILDRENWakefield High SchoolArlington, Virginia12:06 . EDTTHE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. All right, everybody go ahead and have a seat. How is everybody doing toda