【正文】 nd routines are starting to shape up, I your first big tests and projects are probably just around the know that you’ve also got a great deal going on outside of circle of friends might be changing a little that used to stay confined to hallways or locker rooms are now finding their way onto Facebook and Twitter.(Laughter.)Some of your families might also be feeling the strain of the many of you know, we’re going through one of the toughest economic times that we’ve gone through in our lifetimein my lifetime hasn’t been that so, as a consequence, you might have to pick up an afterschool job to help out your family, or maybe you’re babysitting for a younger sibling because mom or dad is working an extra all of you have a lot on your guys are growing up faster and interacting with a wider world in a way that old folks like me, frankly, just didn’t have today, I don’t want to be just another adult who stands up and lectures you like you’re just kidsbecause you’re not just ’re this country’s ’re young whether we fall behind or race ahead as a nation is going to depend in large part on I want to talk to you a little bit about meeting that starts, obviously, with being the best student that you can , that doesn’t always mean that you have to have a perfect score on every doesn’t mean that you’ve got to get straight As all the timealthough that’s not a bad goal to means that you have to stay at have to be determined and you have to means you’ve got to work as hard as you know how to it means that you’ve got to take some risks once in a can’t avoid the class that you think might be hard because you’re worried about getting the best grade if that’s a subject that you think you need to prepare you for your ’ve got to ’ve got to ’ve got to every once in a while, you need to color outside of the ’s what school is for: discovering new passions, acquiring new skills, making use of this incredible time that you have to prepare yourself and give yourself the skills that you’re going to need to pursue the kind of careers that you that’s why when you’re still a student you can explore a wide range of hour you can be an artist。t like being like being number ’s not good we’ve got to usewe’ve got to make sure your generation gets us back to the top of having the most college graduates relative to the population of any country on we do that, you guys will have a brighter so will ’ll be able to make sure the newest inventions and the latest breakthroughs happen right here in the United States of will mean better jobs, and more fulfilling lives, and greater opportunities not only for you, but also for your I don’t want anybody who’s listening here today to think that you’re done once you finish high are not done fact, what’s happening in today’s economy isit’s all about lifelong have to constantly upgrade your skills and find new ways of doing if college isn39。they’re waking up at dawn。s been approached by some doctors and researchers who want to work with her to help her with her point is you don’t have to wait to make a ’re first obligation is to do well in ’re first obligation is to make sure that you’re preparing yourself for college and you can also start making your mark right lot of times young people may have better ideas than us old people do just need those ideas out in the open, in and out of the I meet young people like yourselves, when I sat and talk to Donae, I have no doubt that America’s best days are still ahead of us, because I know the potential that lies in each of enough, you will be the ones leading our businesses and leading our will be the one who are making sure that the next generation gets what they need to will be the ones that are charting the course of our unwritten all that starts right nowstarts this I want all of you who are listening, as well as everybody here at Banneker, I want you to make the most of the year that’s ahead of want you to think of this time as one in which you are just loading up with information and skills, and you’re trying new things and you’re practicing, and you’re honingall those things that you’re going to need to do great things when you get out of country is depending on set your sights a great school ’s get to you very much, bless bless the United States of America.(Applause.)