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ealth, 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 something important 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。第一篇:美國總統(tǒng)奧巴馬開學(xué)演講 《我們?yōu)槭裁匆蠈W(xué)?》英文全文美國總統(tǒng)奧巴馬開學(xué)演講 《我們?yōu)槭裁匆蠈W(xué)?》英文全文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。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。s understandable if you39。re in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer and you could39。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。d fall asleep right there at the kitchen whenever I39。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。m here because I want to talk with you about your education and what39。ve given a lot of speeches about I39。ve talked about teachers39。ve talked about your parents39。t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with the 39。s responsibility for setting high standards, and supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren39。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。re good single one of you has something to you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that 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 going to need a good education for every single one of those cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good 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。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。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