【正文】 t always able to give us the things that other kids were times when I missed having a father in my wer。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。d say, “This is no piic for me either, buster.”So I know that some of you are still adjusting to being back at I39。d fall asleep right there at the kitchen whenever I39。t have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school, but she thought it was important for me to keep up with an American she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through because she had to go to work, the only time she could do it was at 4:30 in the , as you might imagine, I wasn39。re in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer and you could39。s understandable if you39。ve got students tuning in from all across America, from kindergarten through 12th I am just so glad that all could join us I want to thank Wakefield for being such an outstanding yourselves a big round of know that for many of you, today is the first day of for those of you in kindergarten, or starting middle or high school, it39。最后祝各位莘莘學子身體健康，學有所成。誠然，在大學，我們需要完成從無憂無慮的孩子到社會成員的角色蛻變，一夜長大的痛苦是不言而喻的，但這決不是自我放逐渾渾噩噩的借口，我們長大了，我們應該并且能夠承擔起屬于自己的責任。這場演講雖然是做給美國學生的，但對照我們自己，想想我們的責任與夢想是什么？我們?yōu)槭裁炊鴮W習，我們可以學到什么？我們又真的學到了什么？我們又該怎樣學習？思考的時間到了，同學們，花片刻的時間仔細讀一讀這篇文章吧。he had left when I was so there were all kinds of issues that I was dealing of you may be working through your own questions right now and ing to terms with what makes you I know that figuring out all of that can be even more difficult when you’ve got bullies in a class who try to use those differences to pick on you or poke fun at you, to make you feel bad about in some places, the problem is even more are neighborhoods in my hometown of Chicago, and there are neighborhoods right here in Philadelphia where kids are doing each other serious , what I want to say to every kid, every young personwhat I want all of youif you take away one thing from my speech, I want you to take away the notion that life is precious, and part of what makes it so wonderful is its diversity, that all of us are we shouldn’t be embarrassed by the things that make us should be proud of them, because it’s the thing that makes us different that makes us who we are, that makes us the strength and character of this country has always e from our ability to recognizeno matter who we are, no matter where we e from, no matter what we look like, no matter what abilities we haveto recognize ourselves in each was reminded of that idea the other day when I read a letter from Tamerria ’s a 12yearold girl in she told me about how hard she works and about all the munity service she does with her she wrote, “I try to achieve my dreams and help others do the same.” “That,” she said, “is how the world should work.” That’s a pretty good work hard to achieve my goals and then I try to help others to achieve their I agree with ’s how the world should it’s only going to work that way if all of you get in good habits while you’re in , yes, each of us need to work all have to take responsibilities for our own need to take responsibility for our own what makes us who we are is that here, in this country, in the United States of America, we don’t just reach for our own dreams, we try to help others do the is a country that gives all its daughters and all of its sons a fair chance, a chance to make the most of their lives and fulfill their Godgiven I’m absolutely confident that if all of our studentshere at Masterman and across this countrykeep doing their part, if you guys work hard and you’re focused on your education, you keep fighting for your dreams and then you help each other reach each other’s dreams, then you’re not only going to succeed this year, you’re going t