【正文】 t ever give up on yourself, beca。re struggling, even when you39。s a sign of strength because it shows you have the courage to admit when you don39。t be afraid to ask for help when you need do that every for help isn39。s good enough to hand 39。t hit every note the first time you sing a 39。s born being good at all bee good at things through hard 39。t mean you39。t mean you39。s why I succeed.”These people succeeded because they understood that you can39。ve had the most 39。t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you 39。t love every subject that you won39。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。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。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。ve got it a lot worse off than many of they refused to give chose to takeresponsibility for their lives, for their education, and set goals for I expect all of you to do the 39。s on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to Jazmin, Andoni, and Shantell aren39。s headed to college this then there39。s fought brain cancer since he was 39。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 39。s written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own make your own 39。t have to determine where you39。ve got going on at homenone of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in 39。t feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren39。t have adults in your life who give you the support that you someone in your family has lost their job and there39。m not proud of, and I got in more trouble than I should my life could have easily taken a turn for the 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 fit I wasn39。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。re quitting on your , I know it39。t do thatif you quit on schoolyou39。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。re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the 39。ve got to train for it and work for it and learn for this isn39。ll need an education to do 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。s the opportunity an education can 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 what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your want to start with the responsibility you have to single one of you has something that you39。t working, where students aren39。ve talked a lot about your government39。 responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and you get your homework done, and don39。 responsibility for inspiring students and pushing you to 39。ve talked about responsibility a 39。s expected of all of you in this new school , I39。m here today because I have somethingimportant to discuss with 39。d plain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and she39。t too happy about getting up that a lot of times, I39。ve stayed in bed just a little bit longer this know that I was young, my family lived lived in Indonesia for a few my mother, she didn39。re a little imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right now(applause)with just one more year to no matter what grade you39。s your first day in a new school, so it39。S SCHOOLCHILDRENWakefield High SchoolArlington, Virginia12:06 THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody!Thank you, right, everybody go ahead and have a is everybody doing today?(Applause.)How about Tim Spicer?(Applause.)I am here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, we39。be proud of them, and see what lessons you can draw from what they’re doing , I’m sort of preaching to the choir here because I know that’s the kind of culture of excellence that you promote at I’m not just speaking to all of you, I’m speaking to kids all across the I want them to all here that same message: That’s the kind of excellence we’ve got to promote in all of America’s ’s one of the reasons why I’m announcing our second Commencement of you may have heard of your school is the winner, if you show us how teachers and students and parents are all working together to prepare your kids and your school for college and a career, if you show us how you’re giving back to your munity and your country, then I will congratulate you in person by speaking at your year I was in Michigan at Kalamazoo and had just a wonderful I got to admit, their graduating class was about 700 kids and my hands were really sore at the end of it because I was shaking all of them.(Laughter.)But the truth is, an educatio