【正文】 I39。m calling on each of you to set your own goals for your educationand do everything you can to meet goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending some time each day reading a you39。ll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your you39。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 you39。ll decide to take better care of yourself so you can be more ready to along those lines, by the way, I hope all of you are washing your hands a lot, and that you stay home from school when you don39。t feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and whatever you resolve to do, I want you to mit to want you to really work at know that sometimes you get that sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard workthat your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV are you39。re not going to be any of those truth is, being successful is won39。t love every subject that you won39。t click with every teacher that you every homework assignment will seem pletely relevant to your life right at this you won39。t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you 39。s of the most successful people in the world are the ones who39。ve had the most 39。swho wrote Harry Potterher first Harry Potter book was rejected 12 times before it was finally Jordan was cut from his high school basketball lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his he once said, “I have failed over and over and over again in my that39。s why I succeed.” These people succeeded because they understood that you can39。t let your failures define youyou have to let your failures teach have to let them show you what to do differently the next if you get into trouble, that doesn39。t mean you39。re a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to act you get a bad grade, that doesn39。t mean you39。re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time one39。s born being good at all bee good at things through hard 39。re not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new don39。t hit every note the first time you sing a 39。ve got to same principle applies to your might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it might have to read something a few times before you understand definitely have to do a few drafts of a paper before it39。s good enough to hand 39。t be afraid to ask 39。t be afraid to ask for help when you need do that every for help isn39。t a sign of weakness, it39。s a sign of strength because it shows you have the courage to admit when you don39。t know something, and that then allows you to learn something find an adult that you trusta parent, a grandparent or teacher, a coach or a counselorand ask them to help you stay on track to meet your even when you39。re struggling, even when you39。re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you, don39。t ever give up on yourself, because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your story of America isn39。t about people who quit when things got 39。s about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their 39。s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and they founded this who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war。who fought for civil rights and put a man on the who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google and Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we municate with each today, I want to ask all of you, what39。s your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a President who es here in 20 or 50 or 100 years say about what all of you did for this country? Now, your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these 39。m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books and the equipment and the puters you need to you39。ve got to do your part, I expect all of you to get serious this expect you to put your best effort into everything you expect great things from each of don39。t let us 39。t let your family down or your country of all, don39。t let yourself us all you very much, bless bless 嗨，大家好！你們今天過(guò)得怎么樣？我現(xiàn)在和弗吉尼亞州阿林頓郡韋克菲爾德高中的學(xué)生們?cè)谝黄?，全?guó)各地也有從幼兒園到高三的眾多學(xué)生們通過(guò)電視關(guān)注這里，我很高興你們能共同分享這一時(shí)刻。我知道，對(duì)你們中的許多人來(lái)說(shuō)，今天是開(kāi)學(xué)的第一天，你們中的有一些剛剛進(jìn)入幼兒園或升上初高中，對(duì)你們來(lái)說(shuō)，這是在新學(xué)校的第一天，因此，假如你們感到有些緊張，那也是很正常的。我想也會(huì)有許多畢業(yè)班的學(xué)生們正自信滿滿地準(zhǔn)備最后一年的沖刺。不過(guò)，我想無(wú)論你有多大、在讀哪個(gè)年級(jí)，許多人都打心底里希望現(xiàn)在還在放暑假，以及今天不用那么早起床。我可以理解這份心情。小時(shí)候，我們家在印度尼西亞住過(guò)幾年，而我媽媽沒(méi)錢(qián)送我去其他美國(guó)孩子們上學(xué)的地方去讀書(shū)，因此她決定自己給我上課——時(shí)間是每周一到周五的凌晨4點(diǎn)半。顯然，我不怎么喜歡那么早就爬起來(lái)，很多時(shí)候，我就這么在廚房的桌子前睡著了。每當(dāng)我埋怨的時(shí)候，我媽總會(huì)用同一副表情看著我說(shuō)：“小鬼，你以為教你我就很輕松？”所以，我可以理解你們中的許多人對(duì)于開(kāi)學(xué)還需要時(shí)間來(lái)調(diào)整和適應(yīng)，但今天我站在這里，是為了和你們談一些重要的事情。我要和你們談一談你們每個(gè)人的教育，以及在新的學(xué)年里，你們應(yīng)當(dāng)做些什么。我做過(guò)許多關(guān)于教育的講話，也常常用到“責(zé)任”這個(gè)詞。我談到過(guò)教師們有責(zé)任激勵(lì)和啟迪你們，督促你們學(xué)習(xí)。我談到過(guò)家長(zhǎng)們有責(zé)任看管你們認(rèn)真學(xué)習(xí)、完成作業(yè)，不要成天只會(huì)看電視或打游戲機(jī)。我也很多次談到過(guò)政府有責(zé)任設(shè)定高標(biāo)準(zhǔn)嚴(yán)要求、協(xié)助老師和校長(zhǎng)們的工作，改變?cè)谟行W(xué)校里學(xué)生得不到應(yīng)有的學(xué)習(xí)機(jī)會(huì)的現(xiàn)狀。但哪怕這一切都達(dá)到最好，哪怕我們有最盡職的教師、最好的家長(zhǎng)、和最優(yōu)秀的學(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)?！悄忝刻鞙?zhǔn)時(shí)去上學(xué)、除非你認(rèn)真地聽(tīng)老師講課、除非你把父母、長(zhǎng)輩和其他大人們說(shuō)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)失去意義。而這就是我今天講話的主題：對(duì)于自己的教育，你們中每一個(gè)人的責(zé)任。首先，我想談?wù)勀銈儗?duì)于自己有什么責(zé)任。你們中的每一個(gè)人都會(huì)有自己擅長(zhǎng)的東西，每一個(gè)人都是有用之材，而發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才能是什么，就是你們要對(duì)自己擔(dān)起的責(zé)任。教育給你們提供了發(fā)現(xiàn)自己才能的機(jī)會(huì)。或許你能寫(xiě)出優(yōu)美的文字——甚至有一天能讓那些文字出現(xiàn)在書(shū)籍和報(bào)刊上——但假如不在英語(yǔ)課上經(jīng)常練習(xí)寫(xiě)作，你不會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)自己有這樣的天賦；或許你能成為一個(gè)發(fā)明家、創(chuàng)造家——甚至設(shè)計(jì)出像今天的iPhone一樣流行的產(chǎn)品，或研制出新的藥物與疫苗——但假如不在自然科學(xué)課程上做上幾次實(shí)驗(yàn)，你不會(huì)知道自己有這樣的天賦；或許你能成為一名議員或最高法院法官，但假如你不去加入什么學(xué)生會(huì)或參加幾次辯論賽，你也不會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才能。而且，我可以向你保證，不管你將來(lái)想要做什么，你都需要相應(yīng)的教育。——你想當(dāng)名醫(yī)生、當(dāng)名教師或當(dāng)名警官？你想成為護(hù)士、成為建筑設(shè)計(jì)師、律師或軍人？無(wú)論你選擇哪一種職業(yè)，良好的教育都必不可少，這世上不存在不把書(shū)念完就能拿到好工作的美夢(mèng)，任何工作，都需要你的汗水、訓(xùn)練與學(xué)習(xí)。不僅僅對(duì)于你們個(gè)人的未來(lái)有重要意義，你們的教育如何也會(huì)對(duì)這個(gè)國(guó)家、乃至世界的未來(lái)產(chǎn)生重要影響。今天你們?cè)趯W(xué)校中學(xué)習(xí)的內(nèi)容，將會(huì)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)。你們需要在數(shù)理科學(xué)課程上學(xué)習(xí)的知識(shí)和技能，去治療癌癥、艾滋那樣的疾病，和解決我們面臨的能源問(wèn)題與環(huán)境問(wèn)題；你們需要在歷史社科課程上培養(yǎng)出的觀察力與判斷力，來(lái)減輕和消除無(wú)家可歸與貧困、犯罪問(wèn)題和各種歧視，讓這個(gè)國(guó)家變得更加公平和自由；你們需要在各類(lèi)課程中逐漸累積和發(fā)