【正文】 a consequence, you might have to pick up an afterschool job to help out your family, or maybe you’re babysitting for a younger sibling because mom or dad is working an extra all of you have a lot on your guys are growing up faster and interacting with a wider world in a way that old folks like me, frankly, just didn’t have today, I don’t want to be just another adult who stands up and lectures you like you’re just kidsbecause you’re not just ’re this country’s ’re young whether we fall behind or race ahead as a nation is going to depend in large part on I want to talk to you a little bit about meeting that starts, obviously, with being the best student that you can , that doesn’t always mean that you have to have a perfect score on every doesn’t mean that you’ve got to get straight As all the timealthough that’s not a bad goal to means that you have to stay at have to be determined and you have to means you’ve got to work as hard as you know how to it means that you’ve got to take some risks once in a can’t avoid the class that you think might be hard because you’re worried about getting the best grade if that’s a subject that you think you need to prepare you for your ’ve got to ’ve got to ’ve got to every once in a while, you need to color outside of the ’s what school is for: discovering new passions, acquiring new skills, making use of this incredible time that you have to prepare yourself and give yourself the skills that you’re going to need to pursue the kind of careers that you that’s why when you’re still a student you can explore a wide range of hour you can be an artist。the next, a scientist, or a historian, or a is the time where you can try out new interests and test new the more you do, the sooner you’ll figure out what makes you e 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