【正文】 alive, what stirs you, what makes you excitedthe career that you want to , if you promise not to tell anybody, I will let you in on a little secret: I was not always the very best student that I could be when I was in high school, and certainly not when I was in middle did not love every class I wasn’t always paying attention the way I should remember when I was in 8th grade I had to take a class called , ethics is about right and wrong, but if you’d ask me what my favorite subject was back in 8th grade, it was don’t think ethics would have made it on the here’s the interesting still remember that ethics class, all these years remember the way it made me remember being asked questions like: What matters in life? Or, what does it mean to treat other people with dignity and respect? What does it mean to live in a diverse nation, where not everybody looks like you do, or thinks like you do, or es from the same neighborhood as you do? How do we figure out how to get along?Each of these questions led to new I didn’t always know the right answers, but those discussions and that process of discoverythose things have things are still with me day, I’m thinking about those same issues as I try to lead this ’m asking the same kinds of questions about, how do we as a diverse nation e together to achieve what we need to achieve? How do we make sure that every single person is treated with dignity and respect? What responsibilities do we have to people who are less fortunate than we are? How do we make sure that everybody is included in this family of Americans?Those are all questions that date back to this class that I took back in 8th here’s the thing: I still don’t always know the answers to all these if I’d have just tuned out because the class sounded boring, I might have missed out on something that not only did I turn out enjoying, but has ended up serving me in good stead for the rest of my that’s a big part of your responsibility, is to test things new ’t be embarrassed if you’re not good at something right ’re not supposed to be good at everything right ’s why you’re in idea, though, is, is that you keep on expanding your horizons and your sense of is the time for you to do those are also, by the way, the things that will make school more the road, those will be the traits that will help you succeed, as wellthe traits that will lead you to invent a device that makes an iPad look like a stone what will help you figure out a way to use the sun and the wind to power a city and give us new energy sources that are less maybe you’ll write the next great American , to do almost any of those things, you have to not only graduate from high school,and I know I’m justI’m in the “amen” corner with Principal Berger herenot only do you have to graduate from high school, but you’re going to have to continue education after you have to not only graduate, but you’ve got to keep going after you might mean, for many of you, a fouryear was just talking to Donae, and she wants to be an architect, and she’s interning with a architectural firm, and she’s already got her sights set on what school she wants to go it might, for some other folks, be a munity college, or professional credentialing or the fact of the matter is, is that more than 60 percent of the jobs in the next decade will require more than a high school diplomamore than 60 ’s the world you’re walking I want all of you to set a goal to continue your education after you if that means college for you, just getting into college is not also have to of the biggest challenges we have right now is that too many of our young people enroll in college but don’t actually end up getting their degree, and as a consequenceour country used to have the world’s highest proportion of young people with a college degree。s a mitment we can you.第三篇：奧巴馬演講Thank you.(Applause.)Thank you very , please have a , Madam President, that was an outstanding introduction.(Laughter.)We are so proud of Donae for representing this school so in addition, I also want to acknowledge your outstanding principal, who has been here for 20 yearsfirst as a teacher, now as an outstanding principalAnita give her a big round of applause.(Applause.)I want to acknowledge, as well, Mayor Gray is herethe mayor of Washington, give him a big round of applause.(Applause.)And I also want to thank somebody who is going to go down in history as one of the finest Secretaries of Education that we’ve ever hadArne Duncan is here.(Applause.)Now, it is great to be here at Benjamin Banneker High School, one of the best high schools not only in Washington, ., but one of the best high schools in the country.(Applause.)But we’ve also got students tuning in from all across so I want to wele you all to the new school year, although I know that many of you already have been in school for a know that here at Banneker, you’ve been back at school for a few weeks everything is starting to settle in, just like for all your peers all across the fall sports season is and marching band routines are starting to shape up, I your first big tests and projects are probably just around the know that you’ve also got a great deal going on outside of circle of friends might be changing a little that used to stay confined to hallways or locker rooms are now finding their way onto Facebook and Twitter.(Laughter.)Some of your families might also be feeling the strain of the many of you know, we’re going through one of the toughest economic times that we’ve gone through in our lifetimein my lifetime hasn’t been that so, as a consequence, you mi