【正文】 er this know that I was young, my family lived lived in Indonesia for a few my mother, she didn’t have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school, but she thought it was important for me to keep up with an American she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through because she had to go to work, the only time she could do it was at 4:30 in the , as you might imagine, I wasn’t too happy about getting up that a lot of times, I’d fall asleep right there at the kitchen whenever I’d plain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and she’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 I’m here today because I have something important to discuss with ’m here because I want to talk with you about your education and what’s expected of all of you in this new school , I’ve given a lot of speeches about I’ve talked about responsibility a ’ve talked about teachers’ responsibility for inspiring students and pushing you to ’ve talked about your parents’ responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and you get your homework done, and don’t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with the ’ve talked a lot about your government’s responsibility for setting high standards, and supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren’t working, where students aren’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 ’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 you’re good single one of you has something to you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that ’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 that’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 you’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? You’re going to need a good education for every single one of those cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good ’ve got to train for it and work for it and learn for this isn’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 you’re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the ’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 ’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 ’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 don’t do thatif you quit on schoolyou’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your , I know it’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 it’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 wasn’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 didn’t fit I wasn’t always as focused as I should have been on school, and I did some things I’m not proud of, and I got in more trouble than I should my life could have easily taken a turn for the worse.第二篇：奧巴馬開學中英文演講稿：（本站推薦）奧巴馬開學中英文演講稿Hello, everybody!Thank you, right, everybody go ahead and have a is everybody doing today? How about Tim Spicer? I am here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, we’ve got students tuning in from all across America, from kindergarten through 12th I am just so glad that all could join us I want to thank Wakefield for being such an outstanding yourselves a big round of !謝謝你們。我還要感謝韋克菲爾德高中出色的組織安排。我在印度尼西亞住了幾年。但我今天來到這里是因為有重要的事情要和你們說。這就是我今天講話的重點：你們每個人對自己的教育應盡的責任。你或許能成為一名市長或參議員或最高法院的大法官——但你可能要在參加學生會的工作或辯論隊后才會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才華。你們今日在校學習的知識將決定我們作為一2/7奧巴馬開學中英文演講稿個國家是否能夠迎接我們未來所面臨的最嚴峻挑戰(zhàn)。I get know what it’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 wasn’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 didn’t fit 。我有過許多第二次機會，我有幸能上大學，上法學院，追求自己的理想。But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your lifewhat you look like, where you e from, how much money you have, what you’ve got going on at homenone of that is an