【正文】 ods 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。d say, “This is no piic for me either, buster.”(Laughter.)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 applause.(Applause.)I 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。謝謝大家，上帝保佑你們，上帝保佑美國。請不要讓我們失望——不要讓你的家人、你的國家和你自己失望。但你們也要擔起自己的責任。因此，今天我想要問你們，你們會做出什么樣的貢獻？你們將解決什么樣的難題？你們能發(fā)現(xiàn)什么樣的事物？二十、五十或百年之后，假如那時的美國總統(tǒng)也來做一次開學演講的話，他會怎樣描述你們對這個國家所做的一切？你們的家長、你們的老師和我，每一個人都在盡最大的努力，確保你們都能得到應有的教育來回答這些問題。美國不是一個人們遭遇困難就輕易放棄的國度，在這個國家，人們堅持到底、人們加倍努力，為了他們所熱愛的國度，每一個人都盡著自己最大的努力，不會給自己留任何余地。你要記住，哪怕你表現(xiàn)不好、哪怕你失去信心、哪怕你覺得身邊的人都已經(jīng)放棄了你——永遠不要自己放棄自己。求助并不是軟弱的表現(xiàn)，恰恰相反，它說明你有勇氣承認自己的不足、并愿意去學習新的知識。不要不敢向他人求助。這都是很正常的。任何人都不是在第一次接觸一項體育運動時就成為校隊的代表，任何人都不是在第一次唱一首歌時就找準每一個音，一切都需要熟能生巧。從失敗中，你可以明白下一次自己可以做出怎樣的改變；假如你惹了什么麻煩，那并不說明你就是個搗蛋鬼，而是在提醒你，在將來要對自己有更嚴格的要求；假如你考了個低分，那并不說明你就比別人笨，而是在告訴你，自己得在學習上花更多的時間。喬丹上高中時被學校的籃球隊刷了下來，在他的職業(yè)生涯里，他輸了幾百場比賽、投失過幾千次射籃，知道他是怎么說的嗎？“我一生不停地失敗、失敗再失敗，這就是我現(xiàn)在成功的原因?！豆菦]有關系。你不可能對要讀的每門課程都興趣盎然，你不可能和每名帶課教師都相處順利，你也不可能每次都遇上看起來和現(xiàn)實生活有關的作業(yè)。我知道有些時候，電視上播放的節(jié)目會讓你產(chǎn)生這樣那樣的錯覺，似乎你不需要付出多大的努力就能腰纏萬貫、功成名就——你會認為只要會唱rap、會打籃球或參加個什么真人秀節(jié)目就能坐享其成，但現(xiàn)實是，你幾乎沒有可能走上其中任何一條道路。你的目標可以很簡單，像是完成作業(yè)、認真聽講或每天閱讀——或許你打算參加一些課外活動，或在社區(qū)做些志愿工作；或許你決定為那些因為長相或出身等等原因而受嘲弄或欺負的孩子做主、維護他們的權益，因為你和我一樣，認為每個孩子都應該能有一個安全的學習環(huán)境；或許你認為該學著更好的照顧自己，來為將來的學習做準備 當然，除此之外，我希望你們都多多洗手、感到身體不舒服的時候要多在家休息，免得大家在秋冬感冒高發(fā)季節(jié)都得流感。我希望你們中的每一個人，都能做得到這些。賈斯敏、安多尼和香特爾與你們并沒有什么不同。這個秋天，他要開始在大學讀書了。剛進學校時，她根本不會說英語，她住的地方幾乎沒人上過大學，她的父母也沒有受過高等教育，但她努力學習，取得了優(yōu)異的成績，靠獎學金進入了布朗大學，如今正在攻讀公共衛(wèi)生專業(yè)的博士學位。而在這片土地上的每個地方，千千萬萬和你一樣的年輕人正是這樣在書寫著自己的命運。你的未來，并不取決于你現(xiàn)在的生活有多好或多壞。你們中有些人可能沒有這些有利條件，或許你的生活中沒有能為你提供幫助和支持的長輩，或許你的某個家長沒有工作、經(jīng)濟拮據(jù)，或許你住的社區(qū)不那么安全，或許你認識一些會對你產(chǎn)生不良影響的朋友，等等。我在許多事上都得到了重來的機會，我得到了去大學讀法學院、實現(xiàn)自己夢想的機會。因此我并不總是能專心學習，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。今天你們在學校中學習的內(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)。——你想當名醫(yī)生、當名教師或當名警官？你想成為護士、成為建筑設計師、律師或軍人？無論你選