【正文】 e you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and they founded this who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war。t about people who quit when things got 39。re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you, don39。t know something, and that then allows you to learn something find an adult that you trusta parent, a grandparent or teacher, a coach or a counselorand ask them to help you stay on track to meet your even when you39。t a sign of weakness, it39。t be afraid to ask 39。ve got to same principle applies to your might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it might have to read something a few times before you understand definitely have to do a few drafts of a paper before it39。re not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new don39。re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time one39。re a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to act you get a bad grade, that doesn39。t let your failures define youyou have to let your failures teach have to let them show you what to do differently the next if you get into trouble, that doesn39。swho wrote Harry Potterher first Harry Potter book was rejected 12 times before it was finally Jordan was cut from his high school basketball lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his he once said, “I have failed over and over and over again in my that39。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。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