【正文】 ir lives just like you do. In some cases they39。s what young people like you are doing every day, all across America. Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, Texas. Jazmin didn39。但是她學習非?？炭?，成績優(yōu)秀，拿到了布朗大學的獎學金，現(xiàn)在正在研究生院學習公共衛(wèi)生，將會成為杰茲明 ?皮瑞茲醫(yī)生。 你現(xiàn)在是什么樣子不能決定你將來會是什么樣子。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。 但是，說到底，你生活的環(huán)境，你的外表，你的家鄉(xiāng)，你有多少錢，你埋怨家里的什么，這life. There were times when I was lonely and I felt like I didn39。我的人生中有很多第二次機會，而又有機會上了大學，上了法學院，實現(xiàn)自己的夢 想。 我知道，我了解這是怎樣的滋味。re not just quitting on yourself, you39。你們將會需要在所有課程中鍛煉出來的創(chuàng)造性和獨創(chuàng)性來建立新的公司，創(chuàng)造新的工作機會，推動我們的經(jīng)濟發(fā)展。你想成為醫(yī)生，教師或是警官嗎？你想成為護士，建筑師，律師或是軍中的一員嗎？要想從事其中的任何一種職業(yè)，都需要接受良好的教育。s the opportunity an education can provide. Maybe you could be a great writer maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper but you might not know it until you write that English paper that English class paper that39。我想先講講你們對自己的責任。 關 于教育我做了很多次演講了。s responsibility for setting high standards, and supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren39。ve given a lot of speeches about education. And I39。 起這么早我可是不怎么有愉extra lessons herself, Monday through Friday. But because she had to go to work, the only time she could do it was at 4:30 in the morning. Now, as you might imagine, I wasn39。 我知道對你們中的很多人來說，今天是開學第一天。re in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer and you could39。S SCHOOLCHILDREN Wakefield High School Arlington, Virginia 12:06 . EDT THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. All right, everybody go ahead and have a seat. How is everybody doing today? (Applause.) How about Tim Spicer? (Applause.) I am here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we39。奧巴馬總統(tǒng)向?qū)W生們傳達的信息很簡單：努力學習、專心聽講、珍惜學習的機會。不管現(xiàn)在你們上幾年級了，有些人可能希望現(xiàn)在還是夏天，今天早上可能還會有點不想起床。d plain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and she39。 responsibility for inspiring students and pushing you to learn. I39。很多次，我就趴在廚房的桌子上睡著了。我講過了你們的父母讓你們堅持學習，做家庭作業(yè)，不要整天看電視，玩 Xbox的責任。你們有責任自己發(fā)現(xiàn)這些究竟是什么。re going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. You cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You39。 而且這不僅對你自己的生活，你自己的將來來說是重要的。re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future. You39。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。我也曾經(jīng)孤獨寂寞，感到自己很難適應。但是他們都很努力，這樣她才有機會上了美國最好的大學。m not proud of, and I got in more trouble than I should have. And my life could have easily taken a turn for the worse. But I was I was lucky. I got a lot of second chances, and I had the opportunity to go to college and law school and follow my dreams. My wife, our First Lady Michelle Obama, she has a similar story. Neither of her parents had gone to college, and they didn39。t have to determine where you39。你決定自己的未來。但是他的學業(yè)從來沒有落后過，今年秋季，他就要上大學了。s fought brain cancer since he was three. He39。m calling on each of you to set your own goals for your 他們?nèi)齻€人和你們都一樣?；蛟S 你們會支持那些因為自己的身份或外貌受到欺負的孩子，因為你們和我一樣相信每一個孩子都應該有安全的環(huán)境來看書學習。并不是每一份家庭作業(yè)當下看起來都很重要。re not going to be any of those things. The truth is, being successful is hard. You won39。邁克爾 ?喬丹被高中籃球隊裁掉，在職業(yè)生涯中輸了數(shù)百場比賽，數(shù)千次投球未中。你不會第一次從事一個項目就能成為大學校隊成員。尋求幫助并不是弱小的表現(xiàn)，而是力量的表現(xiàn)。t mean you39。t be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn39。 75年前的學生就坐在今天你們坐著的地方，戰(zhàn)勝了經(jīng)濟大蕭條，贏得了世界大戰(zhàn)的勝利，為公民權力而戰(zhàn)，把一位宇航員送上了月球。讓我們都為你而自豪吧。s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and they founded this nation. Young people. Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war