【正文】 swho wrote Harry Potterher first Harry Potter book was rejected 12 times before it was finally Jordan was cut from his high school basketball 。s of the most successful people in the world are the ones who39。t click with every teacher that you every homework assignment will seem pletely relevant to your life right at this you won39。re not going to be any of those truth is, being successful is won39。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。ll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your you39。s why today I39。t any different from any of face challenges in their lives just like you some cases they39。s Shantell Steve, from my hometown of Chicago, 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。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。m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who39。s what young people like you are doing every day, all across people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, didn39。ll end one39。s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of is no excuse for not you are right now doesn39。t 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。s not enough money to go you live in a neighborhood where you don39。t have a lot of they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this of you might not have those you don39。t always as focused as I should have been on school, and I did some things I39。t always able to give us the things that other kids were times when I missed having a father in my were times when I was lonely and I felt like I didn39。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 get know what it39。re not just quitting on yourself, you39。ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new panies that will create new jobs and boost our 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。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 39。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 going to need a good education for every single one of those cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good 39。s assigned to 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 no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you39。re good single one of you has something to you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that 39。t getting the opportunities that they at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, the best schools in the worldand none of it will make a difference, none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities, unless you show up to those schools, unless you pay attention to those teachers, unless you listen to your parents and grandparents and other adults and put in the hard work it takes to 39。s responsibility for setting high standards, and supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren39。t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with the 39。ve talked about your parents39。ve talked about teachers39。ve given a lot of speeches about I39。m here because I want to talk with you about your education and what39。奧巴馬了——也有著相似的人生故事，她的父母都沒讀過大學(xué)，也沒有什么財產(chǎn)，但他們和她都辛勤工作，好讓她[本_文_來_源_于_我_的_學(xué)_習(xí)_網(wǎng) for me either, buster.“(Laughter.)So I know that some of you are still adjusting to being back at I39。我在許多事上都得到了重來的機會，我得到了去大學(xué)讀法學(xué)院、實現(xiàn)自己夢想的機會。因此我并不總是能專心學(xué)習(xí)，我做過許多自己覺得丟臉的事情，也惹出過許多不該惹的麻煩，我的生活岌岌可危，隨時可能急轉(zhuǎn)直下。我知道你們的感受。當(dāng)然，我明白，讀好書并不總是件容易的事。我們需要你們中的每一個人都培養(yǎng)和發(fā)展自己的天賦、技能和才智，來解決我們所面對的最困難的問題。今天你們在學(xué)校中學(xué)習(xí)的內(nèi)容，將會決定我們整個國家在未來迎接重大挑戰(zhàn)時的表現(xiàn)。——你想當(dāng)名醫(yī)生、當(dāng)名教師或當(dāng)名警官？你想成為護士、成為建筑設(shè)計師、律師或軍人？無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念完就能拿到好工作的美夢，任何工作，都需要你的汗水、訓(xùn)練與學(xué)習(xí)?；蛟S你能寫出優(yōu)美的文字——甚至有一天能讓那些文字出現(xiàn)在書籍和報刊上——但假如不在英語課上經(jīng)常練習(xí)寫作，你不會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己有這樣的天賦；或許你能成為一個發(fā)明家、創(chuàng)造家——甚至設(shè)計出像今天的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)課程上做上幾次實驗，你不會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)生會或參加幾次辯論賽，你也不會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才能。你們中的每一個人都會有自己擅長的東西，每一個人都是有用之材，而發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才能是什么，就是你們要對自己擔(dān)起的責(zé)任。而這就是我今天講話的主題：對于自己的教育，你們中每一個人的責(zé)任。但哪怕這一切都達到最好，哪怕我們有最盡職的教師、最好的家長、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白費。我談到過家長們有責(zé)任看管你們認真學(xué)習(xí)、完成作業(yè)，不要成天只會看電視或打游戲機。我做過許多關(guān)于教育的講話，也常常用到“責(zé)任”這個詞。每當(dāng)我埋怨的時候，我媽總會用同一副表情看著我說：“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于開學(xué)還需要時間來調(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。小時候，我們家在印度尼西亞住過幾年，而我媽媽沒錢送我去其他美國孩子們上學(xué)的地方去讀書，因此她決定自己給我上課——時間是每周一到周五的凌晨4點半。不過，我想無論你有多大、在讀哪個年級，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。我知道，對你們中的許多人來說，今天是開學(xué)的第一天，你們中的有一些剛剛進入幼兒園或升上初高中，對你們來說，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。有了去年的“教訓(xùn)”，今年的總統(tǒng)開學(xué)演講，白宮意強調(diào)這是一次“非政治活動”，而奧巴馬本人也在演講中回避政治話題。部分媒體還批評奧巴馬試圖建立個人崇拜。奧巴馬2009年的演講招來了許多批評和抵制。未來在你自己手中，生活由自己締造。我也希望家長負起責(zé)任。這就需要我們有一個杰出的校長，像校長Neff，和優(yōu)秀的老師，正如你們的馬斯特曼的老師們。同時國家也向你們承擔(dān)責(zé)任和義務(wù)，那就是為你們提供最好的教育，為此我們要努力，共同奮斗。你們在學(xué)校的成功并不只決定了自己一人的成功，還決定了美國在21世界是否能夠成功。當(dāng)今，其他國家正與我們競爭，而且比以往任何時候都激烈。More and more, the kinds of opportunities that are open to you are going to be determined by how far you go in farther you go in school, the farther you’re go