【正文】 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 paperthat English class paper that39。ve got to train for it and work for it and learn for this isn39。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 39。re quitting on your , I know it39。t fit I wasn39。t have adults in your life who give you the support that you someone in your family has lost their job and there39。ve got going on at homenone of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in 39。s written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own make your own 39。s fought brain cancer since he was 39。s on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to Jazmin, Andoni, and Shantell aren39。m calling on each of you to set your own goals for your educationand do everything you can to meet goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending some time each day reading a you39。ve got it a lot worse off than many of they refused to give chose to takeresponsibility for their lives, for their education, and set goals for I expect all of you to do the 39。s headed to college this then there39。t speak English when she first started of her parents had gone to she worked hard, earned good grades, and got a scholarship to Brown Universityis now in graduate school, studying public health, on her way to being 39。t have to determine where you39。t feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren39。m not proud of, and I got in more trouble than I should my life could have easily taken a turn for the 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 didn39。s father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mom who had to work and who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn39。t do thatif you quit on schoolyou39。re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the 39。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? You39。s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your want to start with the responsibility you have to single one of you has something that you39。ve talked a lot about your government39。 responsibility for inspiring students and pushing you to 39。s expected of all of you in this new school , I39。d plain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and she39。ve stayed in bed just a little bit longer this know that I was young, my family lived lived in Indonesia for a few my mother, she didn39。s your first day in a new school, so it39。be proud of them, and see what lessons you can draw from what they’re doing , I’m sort of preaching to the choir here because I know that’s the kind of culture of excellence that you promote at I’m not just speaking to all of you, I’m speaking to kids all across the I want them to all here that same message: That’s the kind of excellence we’ve got to promote in all of America’s ’s one of the reasons why I’m announcing our second Commencement of you may have heard of your school is the winner, if you show us how teachers and students and parents are all working together to prepare your kids and your school for college and a career, if you show us how you’re giving back to your munity and your country, then I will congratulate you in person by speaking at your year I was in Michigan at Kalamazoo and had just a wonderful I got to admit, their graduating class was about 700 kids and my hands were really sore at the end of it because I was shaking all of them.(Laughter.)But the truth is, an education is about more than getting into a good ’s about more than getting a good job when you ’s about giving each and every one of us the chance to fulfill our promise, and to be the best version of ourselves we can part of that means treating others the way we want to be treatedwith kindness and that’s something else that I want to municate to students not just here at Masterman but all across the kids can be mean to other ’s face don’t always treat each other with respect and ’s true for adults as well, by the sometimes that’s especially true in middle school or high school, because being a teenager isn’t ’s a time when you’re wrestling with a lot of I was in my teens, I was wrestling with all sorts of questions about who I had a white mother and a black father, and my father wasn’t around。他告訴學(xué)生，在政府做好本職工作，幫助學(xué)生獲得接受優(yōu)質(zhì)教育的機(jī)會(huì)的同時(shí)，學(xué)生仍然應(yīng)該努力學(xué)習(xí)，為自己的未來擔(dān)起責(zé)任。這就需要我們有一個(gè)杰出的校長，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 ，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，還決定了美國在21世界是否能夠成功。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