【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 t does it mean to treat other people with dignity and respect? What does it mean to live in a diverse nation, where not everybody looks like you do, or thinks like you do, or es from the same neighborhood as you do? How do we figure out how to get along?Each of these questions led to new I didn’t always know the right answers, but those discussions and that process of discoverythose things have things are still with me day, I’m thinking about those same issues as I try to lead this ’m asking the same kinds of questions about, how do we as a diverse nation e together to achieve what we need to achieve? How do we make sure that every single person is treated with dignity and respect? What responsibilities do we have to people who are less fortunate than we are? How do we make sure that everybody is included in this family of Americans?Those are all questions that date back to this class that I took back in 8th here’s the thing: I still don’t always know the answers to all these if I’d have just tuned out because the class sounded boring, I might have missed out on something that not only did I turn out enjoying, but has ended up serving me in good stead for the rest of my that’s a big part of your responsibility, is to test things new ’t be embarrassed if you’re not good at something right ’re not supposed to be good at everything right ’s why you’re in idea, though, is, is that you keep on expanding your horizons and your sense of is the time for you to do those are also, by the way, the things that will make school more the road, those will be the traits that will help you succeed, as wellthe traits that will lead you to invent a device that makes an iPad look like a stone what will help you figure out a way to use the sun and the wind to power a city and give us new energy sources that are less maybe you’ll write the next great American , to do almost any of those things, you have to not only graduate from high school,and I know I’m justI’m in the “amen” corner with Principal Berger herenot only do you have to graduate from high school, but you’re going to have to continue education after you have to not only graduate, but you’ve got to keep going after you might mean, for many of you, a fouryear was just talking to Donae, and she wants to be an architect, and she’s interning with a architectural firm, and she’s already got her sights set on what school she wants to go it might, for some other folks, be a munity college, or professional credentialing or the fact of the matter is, is that more than 60 percent of the jobs in the next decade will require more than a high school diplomamore than 60 ’s the world you’re walking I want all of you to set a goal to continue your education after you if that means college for you, just getting into college is not also have to of the biggest challenges we have right now is that too many of our young people enroll in college but don’t actually end up getting their degree, and as a consequenceour country used to have the world’s highest proportion of young people with a college degree。we now rank don39。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。t for you, even if a fouryear college isn39。t for you, you’re still going to have to get more education after you get out of high ’ve got to start expecting big things from yourself right know that may sound a little some of you may be wondering how you can pay for college, or you might not know what you want to do with your life that’s expects you to have your entire future mapped out at this we don39。t expect you to have to make it on your of all, you’ve got wonderful parents who love you to death and want you to have a lot more opportunity than they ever hadwhich, by the way, means don’t give them a hard time when they ask you to turn off the video games, turn off the TV and do some need to be listening to speak from experience because that’s what I’ve been telling Malia and ’t be mad about it, because we’re thinking about your ’ve also got people all across this countryincluding myself and Arne and people at every level of governmentwho are working on your ’re taking every step we can to ensure that you’re getting an educational system that is worthy of your ’re working to make sure that you have the most uptodate schools with the latest tools of ’re making sure that this country’s colleges and universities are affordable and accessible to ’re working to get the best classteachers into the classroom as well, so they can help you prepare for college and a future me say something about teachers, by the are the men and women who might be working harder than just about anybody these days.(Applause.)Whether you go to a big school or a small one, whether you attend a public or a private or charter school –your teachers are giving up their weekends。they’re waking up at dawn。they’re cramming their days full of classes and extracurricular then they’re going home, eating some dinner, and then they’ve got to stay up sometimes past midnight, grading your papers and correcting your grammar, and making sure you got that algebra formula they don’t do it for a fancy don’tthey sure don’t do it for the big do it for do it because nothing gives them more satisfactio