【正文】 o try to use those differences to pick on you or poke fun at you。在某些情況，這些問(wèn)題更加嚴(yán)重。這種事在費(fèi)城也發(fā)生過(guò)。t be embarrassed by the things that make us should be proud of it39。我們不應(yīng)該為使得我們不同的事情感到難為情。因?yàn)檎悄切┳屛覀儾煌氖虑闆Q定了我們是誰(shuí)。I was reminded of that idea the other day when I read a letter from Tamerria Robinson, an 11year old girl in told me about how hard she works, and about all the munity service she does with her she wrote, “I try to achieve my dreams and help others do the same.”“That,” she wrote, “is how the world should work.”我記得當(dāng)我讀Tamerria Robinson，一個(gè)喬治亞州11歲女孩，的來(lái)信。她寫(xiě)道―我試著達(dá)成我的夢(mèng)想，并幫助別人也能這樣‖她寫(xiě)道―世界就應(yīng)這樣‖。那就是她將如何做。是的，我們要承擔(dān)我們自己教育的責(zé)任。但是什么決定我們是誰(shuí)在于：在這個(gè)國(guó)家，我們不僅追求我們自己的夢(mèng)想，我們幫助別人也能這樣。一個(gè)讓他們生命充分發(fā)展的機(jī)會(huì)。And I39。if you keep working hard, and focusing on your education。then not only will you succeed this year, and for the rest of your lives, but America will succeed in the 21st you, God bless you, and may God bless the United States of ——這里在Masterman公學(xué)，以及全國(guó)的學(xué)生——堅(jiān)持做他們的本職；如果你們堅(jiān)持努力學(xué)習(xí)，并且專(zhuān)注于你們的教育；如果你們持續(xù)為你們的夢(mèng)想而努力并且如果我們所有人幫助你實(shí)現(xiàn)夢(mèng)想；那么你不僅將在這一年中取得成功，并且在你其余的生命中取得成功，而且美國(guó)將在21世紀(jì)中成功?！?】指賓夕法尼亞州費(fèi)城的Julia ，費(fèi)城最好的公立定學(xué)區(qū)中學(xué)。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 old folks solve our most difficult you don39。re not just quitting on yourself, you39。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。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。t always as focused as I should have been on school, and I did some things I39。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。s not enough money to go you live in a neighborhood where you don39。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 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。ll end one39。s what young people like you are doing every day, all across people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, didn39。m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who39。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。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。t any different from any of face challenges in their lives just like you some cases they39。s why today I39。ll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your you39。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。re not g