【正文】 ir lives, for their education, and set goals for themselves. And I expect all of you to do the same.That39。t speak English when she first started school. Neither of her parents had gone to college. But she worked hard, earned good grades, and got a scholarship to Brown University is now in graduate school, studying public health, on her way to being Dr. Jazmin Perez.I39。t feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren39。s like. My 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。re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.You39。s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education.I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself. Every single one of you has something that you39。 responsibility for inspiring students and pushing you to learn.I39。d plain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and she39。s your first day in a new school, so it39。s understandable if you39。d say, This is no piic for me either, buster. (Laughter.)So I know that some of you are still adjusting to being back at school. But I39。ve talked about your parents39。re good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That39。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 environment. You39。t always able to give us the things that other kids had. There were times when I missed having a father in my life. There were times when I was lonely and I felt like I didn39。t right.But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life what you look like, where you e from, how much money you have, what you39。m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who39。s why today I39。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。re a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to act right. If you get a bad grade, that doesn39。t be afraid to ask questions. Don39。t about people who quit when things got tough. It39。re not going to be any of those things.The truth is, being successful is hard. You won39。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。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 discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you, don39。ve got to do your part, too. So I expect all of you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort into everything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don39。小時候，我們家在印度尼西亞住過幾年，而我媽媽沒錢送我去其他美國孩子們上學的地方去讀書，因此她決定自己給我上課——時間是每周一到周五的凌晨4點半。但哪怕這一切都達到最好，哪怕我們有最盡職的教師、最好的家長、和最優(yōu)秀的學校，假如你們不去履行自己的責任的話，那么這一切努力都會白費?！阆氘斆t(yī)生、當名教師或當名警官？你想成為護士、成為建筑設(shè)計師、律師或軍人？無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，任何工作，都需要你的汗水、訓練與學習。我知道你們的感受。但歸根結(jié)底，你的生活狀況——你的長相、出身、經(jīng)濟條件、家庭氛圍——都不是疏忽學業(yè)和態(tài)度惡劣的借口，這些不是你去跟老師頂嘴、逃課、或是輟學的借口，這些不是你不好好讀書的借口。舒爾茲（Andoni Schultz），他從三歲起就開始與腦癌病魔做斗爭，他熬過了一次次治療與手術(shù)——其中一次影響了他的記憶，因此他得花出比常人多幾百個小時的時間來完成學業(yè)，但他從不曾落下自己的功課。你的目標可以很簡單，像是完成作業(yè)、認真聽講或每天閱讀——或許你打算參加一些課外活動，或在社區(qū)做些志愿工作；或許你決定為那些因為長相或出身等等原因而受嘲弄或欺負的孩子做主、維護他們的權(quán)益，因為你和我一樣，認為每個孩子都應(yīng)該能有一個安全的學習環(huán)境；或許你認為該學著更好的照顧自己，來為將來的學習做準備……當然，除此之外，我希望你們都多多洗手、感到身體不舒服的時候要多在家休息，免得大家在秋冬感冒高發(fā)季節(jié)都得流感?！豆@都是很正常的。美國不是一個人們遭遇困難就輕易放棄的國度，在這個國家，人們堅持到底、人們加倍努力，為了他們所熱愛的國度，每一個人都盡著自己最大的努力，不會給自己留任何余地。謝謝大家，上帝保佑你們，上帝保佑美國。4. 歲月是無情的，假如你丟給它的是一片空白，它還給你的也是一片空白。你必須努力，當有一天驀然回首時，你的回憶里才會多一些色彩斑斕，少一些蒼白無力。2. 若不是心寬似海，哪有人生風平浪靜。因此，今天我想要問你們，你們會做出什么樣的貢獻？你們將解決什么樣的難題？你們能發(fā)現(xiàn)什么樣的事物？二十、五十或百年之后，假如那時的美國總統(tǒng)也來做一次開學演講的話，他會怎樣描述你們對這個國家所做的一切？你們的家長、你們的老師和我，每一個人都在盡最大的努力，確保你們都能得到應(yīng)有的教育來回答這些問題。不要不敢向他人求助。喬丹上高中時被學校的籃球隊刷了下來，在他的職業(yè)生涯里，他輸了幾百場比賽、投失過幾千次射籃，知道他是怎么說的嗎？“我一生不停地失敗、失敗再失敗，這就是我現(xiàn)在成功的原因。我知道有些時候，電視上播放的節(jié)目會讓你產(chǎn)生這樣那樣的錯覺，似乎你不需要付出多大的努力就能腰纏萬貫、功成名就——你會認為只要會唱rap、會打籃球或參加個什么真人秀節(jié)目就能坐享其成，但現(xiàn)實是，你幾乎沒有可能走上其中任何一條道路。又比如在我的家鄉(xiāng)，伊利諾斯州芝加哥市，身為孤兒的香特爾沒有人為你編排好你的命運，在美國，你的命運由你自己書寫，你的未來由你自己掌握。因此我并不總是能專心學習，我做過許多自己覺得丟臉的事情，也惹出過許多不該惹的麻煩，我的生活岌岌可危，隨時可能急轉(zhuǎn)直下。今天你們在學校中學習的內(nèi)容，將會決定我們整個國家在未來迎接重大挑戰(zhàn)時的表現(xiàn)。而這就是我今天講話的主題：對于自己的教育，你們中每一個人的責任。每當我埋怨的時候，我媽總會用同一副表情看著我說：“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于開學還需要時間來調(diào)整和適應(yīng)，但今天我站在這里，是為了和