【正文】 etimes maybe you’re seeing the worries in your parents’ faces or sense it in their a lot of you as a consequence, because we’re going through a tough time a country, are having to act a lot older than you got to be strong for your family while your brother or sister is serving overseas, or you’ve got to look after younger siblings while your mom is working that second maybe some of you who are little bit older, you’re taking on a parttime job while your dad’s out of that’s a lot to ’s more than you should have to it may make you wonder at times what your own future will look like, whether you’re going to be able to succeed in school, whether you should maybe set your sights a little lower, scale back your I came to Masterman to tell all of you what I think you’re hearing from your principal and your superintendent, and from your parents and your teachers: Nobody gets to write your destiny but future is in your life is what you make of nothingabsolutely nothingis beyond your reach, so long as you’re willing to dream big, so long as you’re willing to work long as you’re willing to stay focused on your education, there is not a single thing that any of you cannot acplish, not a single believe that last part is absolutely essential, that part about really working hard in school, because an education has never been more important than it is ’m sure there are going to be times in the months ahead when you’re staying up late doing your homework or cramming for a test, or you’re dragging yourself out of bed on a rainy morning and you’re thinking, oh, boy, I wish maybe it was a snow day.(Laughter.)But let me tell you, what you’re doing is worth is nothing more important than what you’re doing right is going to have as great an impact on your success in life as your education, how you’re doing in and more, the kinds of opportunities that are open to you are going to be determined by how far you go in farther you go in school, the farther you’re going to go in at a time when other countries are peting with us like never before, when students around the world in Beijing, China, or Bangalore, India, are working harder than ever, and doing better than ever, your success in school is not just going to determine your success, it’s going to determine America’s success in the 21st you’ve got an obligation to yourselves, and America has an obligation to you, to make sure you’re getting the best education making sure you get that kind of education is going to take all of us working hard and all of us working hand in takes all of us in governmentfrom the governor to the mayor to the superintendent to the Presidentall of us doing our part to prepare our students, all of them, for success in the classroom and in college and in a ’s going to take an outstanding principal, like Principal Neff, and outstanding teachers like the ones you have here at Mastermanteachers who are going above and beyond the call of duty for their it’s going to take parents who are mitted to your , that’s what we have to do for ’s our ’s our you’ve got a job, ’ve got to show up to school on ’ve got to pay attention in your ’ve got to do your ’ve got to study for ’ve got to stay out of ’ve got to instill a sense of excellence in everything that you kind of discipline, that kind of drive, that kind of hard work, is absolutely essential for I can speak from experience here because unlike Kelly, I can’t say I always had this , I can tell she was always wasn’t always wasn’t always the best student when I was made my share of still remember a conversation I had with my mother in high was kind of a I was about the age of some of the folks my grades were hadn’t started my college was acting, as my mother put it, sort of casual about my was doing good was smart enough that I could kind of get I wasn’t really applying so I suspect this is a conversation that will sound familiar to some students and some parents here decided to sit me down and said I had to change my attitude was what I imagine every teenager’s attitude is when your parents have a conversation with you like was like, you know, I don’t need to hear all ’m doing okay, I’m not flunking I started to say that, and she just cut me right said, you can’t just sit around waiting for luck to see you said, you can get into any school you want in the country if you just put in a little bit of gave me a hard look and she said, you remember what that’s like? Effort?(Laughter.)Some of you have had that conversation.(Laughter.)And it was pretty jolting hearing my mother say eventually her words had the intended effect, because I got serious about my I started to make an effort in everything that I I began to see my grades and my prospects I know that if hard work could make the difference for me, then it can make a difference for all of I know that there may be some people who are skeptical about you may wonder if some people just aren’t better at certain know, well, I’m not good at math or I’m just not really interested in my science it is true that we each have our own gifts, we each have our own talents that we have to discover and everybody is going to catch on in certain subjects as easily as just because you’re not the best at something today doesn’t mean you can’t be if you don’t think of yourself as a math person or a science person, you can still excel in those subjects if you’re willing to make the you may find out you have talents you never dreamed one of the things I’ve discovered is excellingwhether it’s in school or in lifeisn’t mainly about being smarter than everybody ’s not really the secret to ’s about working harder than everybody don’t avoid new challengesseek them out, step out of your fort zone, don’t be afraid to ask for teachers and family are there to guide want to know if you’re not catching on to something because they know that if you keep on working at it, you’re going to catch ’t feel discouraged。他告訴學(xué)生，在政府做好本職工作，幫助