【正文】 own of Chicago, Illinois. Even 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。這個(gè)秋天，他要開始在大學(xué)讀書了。s had to endure all sorts of treatments and surgeries, one of which affected his memory, so it took him much longer hundreds of extra hours to do his schoolwork. But he never fell behind. He39。m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who39。剛進(jìn)學(xué)校時(shí)，她根本不會(huì)說英語，她住的地方幾乎沒人上過大學(xué)，她的父母也沒有受過高等教育，但她努力學(xué)習(xí)，取得了優(yōu)異的成績，靠獎(jiǎng)學(xué)金進(jìn)入了布朗大學(xué)，如今正在攻讀公共衛(wèi)生專業(yè)的博士學(xué)位。Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roman, Texas. Jazmin didn39。That39。s written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.你的未來，并不取決于你現(xiàn)在的生活有多好或多壞。t have to determine where you39。s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. There is no excuse for not trying.但歸根結(jié)底，你的生活狀況——你的長相、出身、經(jīng)濟(jì)條件、家庭氛圍——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、或是輟學(xué)的借口，這些不是你不好好讀書的借口。But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life what you look like, where you e from, how much money you have, what you39。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 need. Maybe someone in your family has lost their job and there39。我的妻子——現(xiàn)在得叫她第一夫人米歇爾?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(cái)產(chǎn)，但他們和她都辛勤工作，好讓她有機(jī)會(huì)去這個(gè)國家最優(yōu)秀的學(xué)校讀書。t have a lot of money. But they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this country.但我很幸運(yùn)。m not proud of, and I got in more trouble than I should have. And my life could have easily taken a turn for the worse.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(shí)可能急轉(zhuǎn)直下。So I wasn39。t fit in.我知道你們的感受。s like. My 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。我知道你們中的許多人在生活中面臨著各種各樣的問題，很難把精力集中在專心讀書之上。Now, I know it39。re quitting on your country.我們需要你們中的每一個(gè)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。t do that if you quit on school 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 economy.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題與環(huán)境問題；你們需要在歷史社科課程上培養(yǎng)出的觀察力與判斷力，來減輕和消除無家可歸與貧困、犯罪問題和各種歧視，讓這個(gè)國家變得更加公平和自由；你們需要在各類課程中逐漸累積和發(fā)展出來的創(chuàng)新意識(shí)和思維，去創(chuàng)業(yè)和建立新的公司與企業(yè)，來制造就業(yè)機(jī)會(huì)和推動(dòng)經(jīng)濟(jì)的增長。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 environment. You39。今天你們在學(xué)校中學(xué)習(xí)的內(nèi)容，將會(huì)決定我們整個(gè)國家在未來迎接重大挑戰(zhàn)時(shí)的表現(xiàn)。t just important for your own life and your own future. What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. The future of America depends on you. What you39?！阆氘?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)。re going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. You cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You39。And no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you39。Maybe you could be a great writer maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper but you might not know it until you write that English paper that English class paper that39。s the opportunity an education can provide.你們中的每一個(gè)人都會(huì)有自己擅長的東西，每一個(gè)人都是有用之材，而發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才能是什么，就是你們要對自己擔(dān)起的責(zé)任。I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself. Every single one of you has something that you39。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(gè)人的責(zé)任。s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education.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、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)。t getting the opportunit