【正文】 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。 75年前的學(xué)生就坐在今天你們坐著的地方，戰(zhàn)勝了經(jīng)濟(jì)大蕭條，贏得了世界大戰(zhàn)的勝利，為公民權(quán)力而戰(zhàn)，把一位宇航員送上了月球。t mean you39。你不會(huì)第一次從事一個(gè)項(xiàng)目就能成為大學(xué)校隊(duì)成員。re not going to be any of those things. The truth is, being successful is hard. You won39。或許 你們會(huì)支持那些因?yàn)樽约旱纳矸莼蛲饷彩艿狡圬?fù)的孩子，因?yàn)槟銈兒臀乙粯酉嘈琶恳粋€(gè)孩子都應(yīng)該有安全的環(huán)境來(lái)看書學(xué)習(xí)。s fought brain cancer since he was three. He39。你決定自己的未來(lái)。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。我也曾經(jīng)孤獨(dú)寂寞，感到自己很難適應(yīng)。re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future. You39。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。我講過(guò)了你們的父母讓你們堅(jiān)持學(xué)習(xí)，做家庭作業(yè)，不要整天看電視，玩 Xbox的責(zé)任。 responsibility for inspiring students and pushing you to learn. I39。不管現(xiàn)在你們上幾年級(jí)了，有些人可能希望現(xiàn)在還是夏天，今天早上可能還會(huì)有點(diǎn)不想起床。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。 我知道對(duì)你們中的很多人來(lái)說(shuō)，今天是開(kāi)學(xué)第一天。ve given a lot of speeches about education. And I39。 關(guān) 于教育我做了很多次演講了。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。你們將會(huì)需要在所有課程中鍛煉出來(lái)的創(chuàng)造性和獨(dú)創(chuàng)性來(lái)建立新的公司，創(chuàng)造新的工作機(jī)會(huì)，推動(dòng)我們的經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展。 我知道，我了解這是怎樣的滋味。 但是，說(shuō)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。 你現(xiàn)在是什么樣子不能決定你將來(lái)會(huì)是什么樣子。s what young people like you are doing every day, all across America. Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, Texas. Jazmin didn39。 這就是為什么今天，我號(hào)召你們每一個(gè)人樹(shù)立自己的教育目標(biāo)，然后盡自己最大的努力實(shí)現(xiàn)這些目標(biāo)。ll decide to stand up for kids who are being teased or bullied because of who they are or how they look, because you believe, like I do, that all young people deserve a safe environment to study and learn. Maybe you39。如果你身陷麻煩之中，這并不意味著你是個(gè)制造麻煩的人，只是意味著你需要更加努力。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。 美國(guó)人可不是輕易在困難時(shí)候就放棄了的民族。t ever give up on yourself, because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country. The story of America isn39。m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books and the equipment and the puters you need to learn. But you39。我正在努力修整你們的教室，使你們得到學(xué)習(xí)需要的課本，設(shè)備和計(jì)算機(jī)。re not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new sport. You don39。學(xué)業(yè)也是同樣的道理。t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try. That39。 不管你決定做什么，我都希望你能真正致力于這些事情，為之努力。s Shantell Steve, from my hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Even when bouncing from foster home to foster home in the toughest neighborhoods in the city, she managed to get a job at a local health care center, start a program to keep young people out of gangs, and she39。杰茲明剛開(kāi)始上學(xué)的時(shí)候不會(huì)說(shuō)英語(yǔ)。s not enough money to go around. Maybe you live in a neighborhood where you don39。我的生活很可能轉(zhuǎn)變得很糟糕。ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new panies that will create new jobs