【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 擁有最敬業(yè)的教師，最盡力的家長(zhǎng)和全世界最好的學(xué)校，假如你們不去履行自己的責(zé)任的話，那么這一切努力都會(huì)白費(fèi)。除非你每天準(zhǔn)時(shí)去上學(xué)，除非你認(rèn)真聽(tīng)老師講課，除非你把父母、長(zhǎng)輩和其他大人們的話放在心上。除非你肯付出成功所必需的努力。否則這一切都會(huì)失去意識(shí)。而這就是我今天講話的重點(diǎn)：你們每個(gè)人對(duì)自己的教育應(yīng)盡的責(zé)任。I want to start with the responsibility you have to single one of you has something that you39。re good single one of you has something to you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that 39。s the opportunity an education can 。你們每一個(gè)都有自己的長(zhǎng)處，你們每個(gè)人都時(shí)有用之才。你們對(duì)自己應(yīng)盡的責(zé)任時(shí)發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才能所在。而教育能夠提供這樣的機(jī)會(huì)Maybe 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 that39。s assigned to ，甚至有一天能將那些文字出現(xiàn)在書(shū)籍和報(bào)刊上，但假如不再英語(yǔ)課上經(jīng)常練習(xí)寫(xiě)作，你不會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)自己有這樣的才能。Maybe 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 。甚至可能設(shè)計(jì)出新一代iPhone，或研制出新型藥物與疫苗。但假如不再自然科學(xué)課堂上做上幾次試驗(yàn)，你不會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)自己有這樣的才能?；蛟S你能成為一名市長(zhǎng)或參議員，或最高法院的大法官，但假如你不去加入或參加幾次辯論賽，你不會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)自己有這樣的才能。And no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you39。ll need an education to do ，我敢肯定你都需要相應(yīng)的教育。You 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? You39。re going to need a good education for every single one of those cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good 39。ve got to train for it and work for it and learn for 、教師或警官嗎？你想當(dāng)護(hù)士、建筑師、律師或軍人嗎？你必須接受良好的教育才能從事上述任何一種職業(yè)。你不能指望輟學(xué)后碰上個(gè)好工作。你必須接受培訓(xùn)，為之努力，為之學(xué)習(xí)。And this isn39。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 you39。re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the 。教育給你帶來(lái)的益處將決定這個(gè)國(guó)家的未來(lái)。美國(guó)的未來(lái)取決于你們。今天你們?cè)趯W(xué)校中的學(xué)習(xí)內(nèi)容，將決定我們整個(gè)國(guó)家在未來(lái)迎接重大挑戰(zhàn)時(shí)的表現(xiàn)。You39。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 ，去治療癌癥、艾滋病那樣的疾病。開(kāi)發(fā)新的能源技術(shù)保護(hù)我們的環(huán)境。You39。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 39。ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new panies that will create new jobs and boost our ，讓這個(gè)國(guó)家變得更加公平和自由。你們需要在各類課程中逐漸培養(yǎng)創(chuàng)造力和智慧去創(chuàng)辦公司，制造就業(yè)機(jī)會(huì)和推動(dòng)經(jīng)濟(jì)增長(zhǎng)。We 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 don39。t do thatif you quit on schoolyou39。re not just quitting on yourself, you39。re quitting on your 、技能和才智，幫助老一輩人解決我們面臨的最棘手問(wèn)題。如果你們不這樣做，入股你們輟學(xué)，你們不僅放棄了自己，也放棄了自己的國(guó)家。Now, I know it39。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 ，我知道你們中的許多人在生活中面臨著各種問(wèn)題。很難把精力集中在專心讀書(shū)上。I get know what it39。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 wasn39。t always able to give us the things that other kids ，我有親身感受。我父親在我兩歲時(shí)就離開(kāi)了家庭，是我母親一個(gè)人將我拉扯大，母親不得不工作并時(shí) 常為支付生活費(fèi)而苦苦掙扎。但有時(shí)仍無(wú)法位我們提供其他孩子享有的東西。There were times when I missed having a father in my were times when I was lonely and I felt like I didn39。t fit 。有時(shí)我也會(huì)感到孤獨(dú)無(wú)助，感覺(jué)到與周圍的環(huán)境格格不入。So I wasn39。t always as focused as I should have been on school, and I did some things I39。m not proud of, and I got in more trouble than I should my life could have easily taken a turn for the ，我做過(guò)許多自己覺(jué)得丟臉的事情，也惹出許多不該惹的麻煩。我的生活岌岌可危，隨時(shí)可能急轉(zhuǎn)直下。But I wasI was got a lot of second chances, and I had the opportunity to go to college and law school and follow my wife, our First Lady Michelle Obama, she has a similar of her parents had gone to college, and they didn39。t have a lot of they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this ，在許多事情上都得到了重來(lái)的機(jī)會(huì)。我有幸能上大學(xué)，上法學(xué)院，追求自己的理想。我的妻子，也有著類似的人生故事。她的父母親都沒(méi)有讀過(guò)大學(xué)，也沒(méi)有什么財(cái)產(chǎn)，但他們都非常勤奮，她也是如此。因此她得以進(jìn)入一些美國(guó)最好的學(xué)校。Some of you might not have those you don39。t have adults in your life who give you the support that you someone in your family has lost their job and there39。s not enough money to go you live in a neighborhood where you don39。t feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren39。t ?；蛟S你們的生活中沒(méi)有能為你提供幫助的長(zhǎng)輩?；蛟S你們家長(zhǎng)中有人失業(yè)，經(jīng)濟(jì)非常拮據(jù)。或許你住的社區(qū)不那么安全，或許你認(rèn)識(shí)一些會(huì)對(duì)你產(chǎn)生不良影響的朋友。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 you39。ve got going on at homenone of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in 39。s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of is no excuse for not ，你的生活狀況，你的長(zhǎng)相、出身、經(jīng)濟(jì)條件、家庭氣氛，都不是疏忽學(xué)業(yè)和態(tài)度惡劣的借口。這些不是你去跟老師頂嘴、逃課或輟學(xué)的借口。這些不是你不好好讀書(shū)的借口。Where you are right now doesn39。t have to determine where you39。ll end one39。s written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own make your own ，沒(méi)有人為你編排好你的命運(yùn)。在美國(guó)，你的命運(yùn)由你自己書(shū)寫(xiě)，你的未來(lái)你自己掌握。That39。s what young people like you are doing every day, all across ，全美各地都是如此。Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, didn39。t speak English when she first started of her parents had gone to she worked hard, earned good grades, and got a scholarship to Brown Universityis now in graduate school, studying public health, on her way to being ，她剛進(jìn)學(xué)校時(shí)根本不會(huì)說(shuō)英語(yǔ)。她父母都沒(méi)有上過(guò)大學(xué)。然而，她非常勤奮，成績(jī)優(yōu)異，獲得了布朗大學(xué)的獎(jiǎng)學(xué)金。如今正攻讀公共衛(wèi)生專業(yè)的研究生。I39。m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who39。s fought brain cancer since he was 39。s had to endure all sorts of treatments and surgeries, one of which affected his memory, so it took him much longerhundreds of extra hoursto do his he never fell 39。s headed to college this 。他從三歲