奥巴马总统开学日讲话（中英）
简介
9月8日美国中学统开学日子奥巴马机会全国中学生做次讲话白宫网站预先发布演讲稿全文翻译
奥巴马总统开学日讲话
弗吉尼亚州阿林顿市XX年9月8日
嗨家天样？现弗吉尼亚州阿林顿郡韦克菲尔德高中学生起全国幼园高三众学生通电视关注里高兴分享时刻
知道中许说天开学第天中刚刚进入幼园升初高中说新学校第天假感紧张正常想会许毕业班学生正信满满准备年刺想读年级许心底里希现放暑假天早起床
理解份心情时候家印度尼西亚住年妈妈没钱送美国孩子学方读书决定课――时间周周五凌晨4点半
显然喜欢早爬起时候厨房桌子前睡着埋怨时候妈总会副表情着说：鬼教轻松？
理解中许开学需时间调整适应天站里谈重事情谈谈教育新学年里应做什
做许关教育讲话常常责词
谈教师责激励启迪督促学
谈家长责认真学完成作业成天会电视游戏机
次谈政府责设定高标准严求协助老师校长工作改变学校里学生应学机会现状
怕切达怕职教师家长优秀学校假履行责话切努力会白费――非天准时学非认真听老师讲课非父母长辈说话放心非肯付出成功必需努力否切会失意义
天讲话题：教育中责首先想谈谈什责
中会擅长东西材发现什担起责教育提供发现机会
许写出优美文字――甚天文字出现书籍报刊――假英语课常练写作会发现样天赋许成发明家创造家――甚设计出天iphone样流行产品研制出新药物疫苗――假然科学课程做次实验会知道样天赋许成名议员高法院法官假加入什学生会参加次辩赛会发现
保证想做什需相应教育――想名医生名教师名警官？想成护士成建筑设计师律师军？选择种职业良教育必少世存书念完工作美梦工作需汗水训练学
仅仅未重意义教育会国家世界未产生重影响天学校中学容会决定整国家未迎接重挑战时表现
需数理科学课程学知识技治疗癌症艾滋样疾病解决面源问题环境问题需历史社科课程培养出观察力判断力减轻消家贫困犯罪问题种歧视国家变更加公
需类课程中逐渐累积发展出创新意识思维创业建立新公司企业制造业机会推动济增长
需中培养发展天赋技智解决面困难问题假做――假放弃学――仅放弃放弃国家
然明白读书总件容易事知道中许生活中面着种样问题难精力集中专心读书
知道感受父亲两岁时离开家庭母亲拉扯时付起帐单时孩子东西时会想假父亲该时会感孤独助周围环境格格入
总专心学做许觉丢脸事情惹出许该惹麻烦生活岌岌危时急转直
幸运许事重机会学读法学院实现梦想机会妻子――现第夫米歇尔・奥巴马――着相似生事父母没读学没什财产辛勤工作机会国家优秀学校读书
中没利条件许生活中没提供帮助支持长辈
许某家长没工作济拮许住社区安全许认识会产生良影响朋友等等
根结底生活状况――长相出身济条件家庭氛围――疏忽学业态度恶劣口老师顶嘴逃课辍学口读书口
未取决现生活坏没编排命运美国命运书写未掌握
片土方千千万万样年轻正样书写着命运
例德克萨斯州罗马市贾斯敏・佩雷兹（jazmin perez）刚进学校时根会说英语住方没学父母没受高等教育努力学取优异成绩奖学金进入布朗学正攻读公卫生专业博士学位
想起加利福尼亚州洛斯拉图斯市安尼・舒尔兹（andoni schultz）三岁起开始脑癌病魔做斗争熬次次治疗手术――中次影响记忆花出常百时时间完成学业落功课秋天开始学读书
家乡伊利诺斯州芝加哥市身孤香特尔・史蒂夫（shantell steve）换次收养家庭治安差区长努力争取保健站工作机会发起青少年远离犯罪团伙项目快优异成绩中学毕业学深造
贾斯敏安尼香特尔没什样生活中遭遇种样困难问题拒绝放弃选择教育担起责定奋斗目标希中做
天号召教育定目标――切努力实现目标简单完成作业认真听讲天阅读――许算参加课外活动社区做志愿工作许决定长相出身等等原受嘲弄欺负孩子做维护权益样认孩子应该安全学环境许认该学着更顾学做准备……然外希洗手感身体舒服时候家休息免家秋冬感高发季节流感
决定做什希坚持底希真定决心
知道时候电视播放节目会产生样样错觉似需付出努力腰缠万贯功成名――会认会唱rap会篮球参加什真秀节目坐享成现实没走中条道路
成功件难事读门课程兴趣盎然名带课教师相处利次遇起现实生活关作业件事头次尝试时获成功
没关系世界成功历失败jk罗琳第哈利・波特出版商拒绝十二次终出版迈克尔・乔丹高中时学校
篮球队刷职业生涯里输百场赛投失千次射篮知道说？生停失败失败失败现成功原
成功源明白失败左右――中吸取验失败中明白次做出样改变假惹什麻烦说明捣蛋贵提醒更严格求假考低分说明笨告诉学花更时间
没生出擅长做什事情努力培养出技第次接触项体育运动时成校队代表第次唱首歌时找准音切需熟生巧学业样许反复运算解出道数学题正确答案许需读段文字遍理解意思许文改次符合提交标准正常
害怕提问敢求助――天做求助软弱表现恰恰相反说明勇气承认足愿意学新知识懂时求助吧――找信象例父母长辈老师教练辅导员――帮助目标前进
记住怕表现怕失信心怕觉身边已放弃――永远放弃放弃时候放弃国家
美国遭遇困难轻易放弃国度国家坚持底加倍努力热爱国度着努力会留余
250年前群样学生奋起努力场革命终造国家75年前群样学生战胜萧条赢二战20年前样学生创立googletwitterfacebook改变间沟通方式
天想问会做出什样贡献？解决什样难题？发现什样事物？二十五十百年假时美国总统做次开学演讲话会样描述国家做切？
家长老师努力确保应教育回答问题例正努力提供更安全教室更书籍更先进设施计算机担起责求年够认真起求心做着手件事求成请失――家国家失成骄傲知道定做
谢谢家帝保佑帝保佑美国
prepared remarks of president barack obama back to school event
prepared remarks of president barack obama
back to school event
arlington virginia
september 8 XX
the president hello everyone C how’s everybody doing today i’m here with students at wakefield high school in arlington virginia and we’ve got students tuning in from all across america kindergarten through twelfth grade i’m glad you all could join us today
i know that for many of you today is the first day of school and for those of you in kindergarten or starting middle or high school it’s your first day in a new school so it’s understandable if you’re a little nervous i imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right now with just one more year to go and no matter what grade you’re in some of you are probably wishing it were still summer and you could’ve stayed in bed just a little longer this morning
i know that feeling when i was young my family lived in indonesia for a few years and my mother didn’t have the money to send me where all the american kids went to school so she decided to teach me extra lessons herself monday through friday C at 430 in the morning
now i wasn’t too happy about getting up that early a lot of times i’d fall asleep right there at the kitchen table but whenever i’d complain my mother would just give me one of those looks and say this is no picnic for me either buster
so i know some of you are still adjusting to being back at school but i’m here today because i have something important to discuss with you i’m here because i want to talk with you about your education and what’s expected of all of you in this new school year
now i’ve given a lot of speeches about education and i’ve talked a lot about responsibility
i’ve talked about your teachers’ responsibility for inspiring you and pushing you to learn
i’ve talked about your parents’ responsibility for making sure you stay on track and get your homework done and don’t spend every waking hour in front of the tv or with that xbox
i’ve talked a lot about your government’s responsibility for setting high standards supporting teachers and principals and turning around schools that aren’t working where students aren’t getting the opportunities they deserve
but at the end of the day we can have the most dedicated teachers the most supportive parents and the best schools in the world C and none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities unless you show up to those schools pay attention to those teachers listen to your parents grandparents and other adults and put in the hard work it takes to succeed
and that’s what i want to focus on today the responsibility each of you has for your education i want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself
every single one of you has something you’re good at every single one of you has something to offer and you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is that’s the opportunity an education can provide
maybe you could be a good writer C maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper C but you might not know it until you write a paper for your english class maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor C maybe even good enough to come up with the next iphone or a new medicine or vaccine C but you might not know it until you do a project for your science class maybe you could be a mayor or a senator or a supreme court justice but you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team
and no matter what you want to do with your life C i guarantee that you’ll need an education to do it you 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 you’re going to need a good education for every single one of those careers you can’t drop out of school and just drop into a good job you’ve got to work for it and train for it and learn for it
and this isn’t just important for your own life and your own future what you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country what you’re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future
you’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 environment you’ll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness crime and discrimination and make our nation more fair and more free you’ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy
we need every single one of you to develop your talents skills and intellect so you can help solve our most difficult problems if you don’t do that C if you quit on school C you’re not just quitting on yourself you’re quitting on your country
now i know it’s not always easy to do well in school i know a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on your schoolwork
i get it i know what that’s like my father left my family when i was two years old and i was raised by a single mother who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn’t always able to give us things the other kids had there were times when i missed having a father in my life there were times when i was lonely and felt like i didn’t fit in
so i wasn’t always as focused as i should have been i did some things i’m not proud of and got in more trouble than i should have and my life could have easily taken a turn for the worse
but i was fortunate i got a lot of second chances and had the opportunity to go to college and law school and follow my dreams my wife our first lady michelle obama has a similar story neither of her parents had gone to college and they didn’t have much but they worked hard and she worked hard so that she could go to the best schools in this country
some of you might not have those advantages maybe you don’t have adults in your life who give you the support that you need maybe someone in your family has lost their job and there’s not enough money to go around maybe you live in a neighborhood where you don’t feel safe or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren’t right
but at the end of the day the circumstances of your life C what you look like where you come from how much money you have what you’ve got going on at home C that’s no excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude that’s no excuse for talking back to your teacher or cutting class or dropping out of school that’s no excuse for not trying
where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up no one’s written your destiny for you here in america you write your own destiny you make your own future
that’s what young people like you are doing every day all across america
young people like jazmin perez from roma texas jazmin didn’t speak english when she first started school hardly anyone in her hometown went to college and neither of her parents had gone either but she worked hard earned good grades got a scholarship to brown university and is now in graduate school studying public health on her way to being dr jazmin perez
i’m thinking about andoni schultz from los altos california who’s fought brain cancer since he was three he’s endured all sorts of treatments and surgeries one of which affected his memory so it took him much longer C hundreds of extra hours C to do his schoolwork but he never fell behind and he’s headed to college this fall
and then there’s shantell steve from my hometown of chicago illinois even when bouncing from foster home to foster home in the toughest neighborhoods she managed to get a job at a local health center start a program to keep young people out of gangs and she’s on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to college
jazmin andoni and shantell aren’t any different from any of you they faced challenges in their lives just like you do but they refused to give up they chose to take responsibility for their education and set goals for themselves and i expect all of you to do the same
that’s why today i’m calling on each of you to set your own goals for your education C and to do everything you can to meet them your goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework paying attention in class or spending time each day reading a book maybe you’ll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity or volunteer in your community maybe you’ll decide to stand up for kids who are being teased or bullied because of who they are or how they look because you believe like i do that all kids deserve a safe environment to study and learn maybe you’ll decide to take better care of yourself so you can be more ready to learn and along those lines i hope you’ll all wash your hands a lot and stay home from school when you don’t feel well so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and winter
whatever you resolve to do i want you to commit to it i want you to really work at it
i know that sometimes you get the sense from tv that you can be rich and successful without any hard work that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality tv star when chances are you’re not going to be any of those things
but the truth is being successful is hard you won’t love every subject you study you won’t click with every teacher not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right this minute and you won’t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try
that’s ok some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who’ve had the most failures jk rowling’s first harry potter book was rejected twelve times before it was finally published michael jordan was cut from his high school basketball team and he lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career but he once said i have failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why i succeed
these people succeeded because they understand that you can’t let your failures define you C you have to let them teach you you have to let them show you what to do differently next time if you get in trouble that doesn’t mean you’re a troublemaker it means you need to try harder to behave if you get a bad grade that doesn’t mean you’re stupid it just means you need to spend more time studying
no one’s born being good at things you become good at things through hard work you’re not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new sport you don’t hit every note the first time you sing a song you’ve got to practice it’s the same with your schoolwork you might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right or read something a few times before you understand it or do a few drafts of a paper before it’s good enough to hand in
don’t be afraid to ask questions don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it i do that every day asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness it’s a sign of strength it shows you have the courage to admit when you don’t know something and to learn something new so find an adult you trust C a parent grandparent or teacher a coach or counselor C and ask them to help you stay on track to meet your goals
and even when you’re struggling even when you’re discouraged and you feel like other people have given up on you C don’t ever give up on yourself because when you give up on yourself you give up on your country
the story of america isn’t about people who quit when things got tough it’s about people who kept going who tried harder who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best
it’s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago and went on to wage a revolution and found this nation students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a depression and won a world war who fought for civil rights and put a man on the moon students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded google twitter and facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other
so today i want to ask you what’s your contribution going to be what problems are you going to solve what discoveries will you make what will a president who comes here in twenty or fifty or one hundred years say about what all of you did for this country
your families your teachers and i are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these questions i’m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books equipment and computers you need to learn but you’ve got to do your part too so i expect you to get serious this year i expect you to put your best effort into everything you do i expect great things from each of you so don’t let us down C don’t let your family or your country or yourself down make us all proud i know you can do it
thank you god bless you and god bless america
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简介
9月8日美国中学统开学日子奥巴马机会全国中学生做次讲话白宫网站预先发布演讲稿全文翻译
奥巴马总统开学日讲话
弗吉尼亚州阿林顿市XX年9月8日
嗨家天样？现弗吉尼亚州阿林顿郡韦克菲尔德高中学生起全国幼园高三众学生通电视关注里高兴分享时刻
知道中许说天开学第天中刚刚进入幼园升初高中说新学校第天假感紧张正常想会许毕业班学生正信满满准备年刺想读年级许心底里希现放暑假天早起床
理解份心情时候家印度尼西亚住年妈妈没钱送美国孩子学方读书决定课――时间周周五凌晨4点半
显然喜欢早爬起时候厨房桌子前睡着埋怨时候妈总会副表情着说：鬼教轻松？
理解中许开学需时间调整适应天站里谈重事情谈谈教育新学年里应做什
做许关教育讲话常常责词
谈教师责激励启迪督促学
谈家长责认真学完成作业成天会电视游戏机
次谈政府责设定高标准严求协助老师校长工作改变学校里学生应学机会现状
怕切达怕职教师家长优秀学校假履行责话切努力会白费――非天准时学非认真听老师讲课非父母长辈说话放心非肯付出成功必需努力否切会失意义
天讲话题：教育中责首先想谈谈什责
中会擅长东西材发现什担起责教育提供发现机会
许写出优美文字――甚天文字出现书籍报刊――假英语课常练写作会发现样天赋许成发明家创造家――甚设计出天iphone样流行产品研制出新药物疫苗――假然科学课程做次实验会知道样天赋许成名议员高法院法官假加入什学生会参加次辩赛会发现
保证想做什需相应教育――想名医生名教师名警官？想成护士成建筑设计师律师军？选择种职业良教育必少世存书念完工作美梦工作需汗水训练学
仅仅未重意义教育会国家世界未产生重影响天学校中学容会决定整国家未迎接重挑战时表现
需数理科学课程学知识技治疗癌症艾滋样疾病解决面源问题环境问题需历史社科课程培养出观察力判断力减轻消家贫困犯罪问题种歧视国家变更加公
需类课程中逐渐累积发展出创新意识思维创业建立新公司企业制造业机会推动济增长
需中培养发展天赋技智解决面困难问题假做――假放弃学――仅放弃放弃国家
然明白读书总件容易事知道中许生活中面着种样问题难精力集中专心读书
知道感受父亲两岁时离开家庭母亲拉扯时付起帐单时孩子东西时会想假父亲该时会感孤独助周围环境格格入
总专心学做许觉丢脸事情惹出许该惹麻烦生活岌岌危时急转直
幸运许事重机会学读法学院实现梦想机会妻子――现第夫米歇尔・奥巴马――着相似生事父母没读学没什财产辛勤工作机会国家优秀学校读书
中没利条件许生活中没提供帮助支持长辈
许某家长没工作济拮许住社区安全许认识会产生良影响朋友等等
根结底生活状况――长相出身济条件家庭氛围――疏忽学业态度恶劣口老师顶嘴逃课辍学口读书口
未取决现生活坏没编排命运美国命运书写未掌握
片土方千千万万样年轻正样书写着命运
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prepared remarks of president barack obama back to school event
prepared remarks of president barack obama
back to school event
arlington virginia
september 8 XX
the president hello everyone C how’s everybody doing today i’m here with students at wakefield high school in arlington virginia and we’ve got students tuning in from all across america kindergarten through twelfth grade i’m glad you all could join us today
i know that for many of you today is the first day of school and for those of you in kindergarten or starting middle or high school it’s your first day in a new school so it’s understandable if you’re a little nervous i imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right now with just one more year to go and no matter what grade you’re in some of you are probably wishing it were still summer and you could’ve stayed in bed just a little longer this morning
i know that feeling when i was young my family lived in indonesia for a few years and my mother didn’t have the money to send me where all the american kids went to school so she decided to teach me extra lessons herself monday through friday C at 430 in the morning
now i wasn’t too happy about getting up that early a lot of times i’d fall asleep right there at the kitchen table but whenever i’d complain my mother would just give me one of those looks and say this is no picnic for me either buster
so i know some of you are still adjusting to being back at school but i’m here today because i have something important to discuss with you i’m here because i want to talk with you about your education and what’s expected of all of you in this new school year
now i’ve given a lot of speeches about education and i’ve talked a lot about responsibility
i’ve talked about your teachers’ responsibility for inspiring you and pushing you to learn
i’ve talked about your parents’ responsibility for making sure you stay on track and get your homework done and don’t spend every waking hour in front of the tv or with that xbox
i’ve talked a lot about your government’s responsibility for setting high standards supporting teachers and principals and turning around schools that aren’t working where students aren’t getting the opportunities they deserve
but at the end of the day we can have the most dedicated teachers the most supportive parents and the best schools in the world C and none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities unless you show up to those schools pay attention to those teachers listen to your parents grandparents and other adults and put in the hard work it takes to succeed
and that’s what i want to focus on today the responsibility each of you has for your education i want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself
every single one of you has something you’re good at every single one of you has something to offer and you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is that’s the opportunity an education can provide
maybe you could be a good writer C maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper C but you might not know it until you write a paper for your english class maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor C maybe even good enough to come up with the next iphone or a new medicine or vaccine C but you might not know it until you do a project for your science class maybe you could be a mayor or a senator or a supreme court justice but you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team
and no matter what you want to do with your life C i guarantee that you’ll need an education to do it you 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 you’re going to need a good education for every single one of those careers you can’t drop out of school and just drop into a good job you’ve got to work for it and train for it and learn for it
and this isn’t just important for your own life and your own future what you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country what you’re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future
you’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 environment you’ll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness crime and discrimination and make our nation more fair and more free you’ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy
we need every single one of you to develop your talents skills and intellect so you can help solve our most difficult problems if you don’t do that C if you quit on school C you’re not just quitting on yourself you’re quitting on your country
now i know it’s not always easy to do well in school i know a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on your schoolwork
i get it i know what that’s like my father left my family when i was two years old and i was raised by a single mother who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn’t always able to give us things the other kids had there were times when i missed having a father in my life there were times when i was lonely and felt like i didn’t fit in
so i wasn’t always as focused as i should have been i did some things i’m not proud of and got in more trouble than i should have and my life could have easily taken a turn for the worse
but i was fortunate i got a lot of second chances and had the opportunity to go to college and law school and follow my dreams my wife our first lady michelle obama has a similar story neither of her parents had gone to college and they didn’t have much but they worked hard and she worked hard so that she could go to the best schools in this country
some of you might not have those advantages maybe you don’t have adults in your life who give you the support that you need maybe someone in your family has lost their job and there’s not enough money to go around maybe you live in a neighborhood where you don’t feel safe or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren’t right
but at the end of the day the circumstances of your life C what you look like where you come from how much money you have what you’ve got going on at home C that’s no excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude that’s no excuse for talking back to your teacher or cutting class or dropping out of school that’s no excuse for not trying
where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up no one’s written your destiny for you here in america you write your own destiny you make your own future
that’s what young people like you are doing every day all across america
young people like jazmin perez from roma texas jazmin didn’t speak english when she first started school hardly anyone in her hometown went to college and neither of her parents had gone either but she worked hard earned good grades got a scholarship to brown university and is now in graduate school studying public health on her way to being dr jazmin perez
i’m thinking about andoni schultz from los altos california who’s fought brain cancer since he was three he’s endured all sorts of treatments and surgeries one of which affected his memory so it took him much longer C hundreds of extra hours C to do his schoolwork but he never fell behind and he’s headed to college this fall
and then there’s shantell steve from my hometown of chicago illinois even when bouncing from foster home to foster home in the toughest neighborhoods she managed to get a job at a local health center start a program to keep young people out of gangs and she’s on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to college
jazmin andoni and shantell aren’t any different from any of you they faced challenges in their lives just like you do but they refused to give up they chose to take responsibility for their education and set goals for themselves and i expect all of you to do the same
that’s why today i’m calling on each of you to set your own goals for your education C and to do everything you can to meet them your goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework paying attention in class or spending time each day reading a book maybe you’ll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity or volunteer in your community maybe you’ll decide to stand up for kids who are being teased or bullied because of who they are or how they look because you believe like i do that all kids deserve a safe environment to study and learn maybe you’ll decide to take better care of yourself so you can be more ready to learn and along those lines i hope you’ll all wash your hands a lot and stay home from school when you don’t feel well so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and winter
whatever you resolve to do i want you to commit to it i want you to really work at it
i know that sometimes you get the sense from tv that you can be rich and successful without any hard work that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality tv star when chances are you’re not going to be any of those things
but the truth is being successful is hard you won’t love every subject you study you won’t click with every teacher not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right this minute and you won’t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try
that’s ok some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who’ve had the most failures jk rowling’s first harry potter book was rejected twelve times before it was finally published michael jordan was cut from his high school basketball team and he lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career but he once said i have failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why i succeed
these people succeeded because they understand that you can’t let your failures define you C you have to let them teach you you have to let them show you what to do differently next time if you get in trouble that doesn’t mean you’re a troublemaker it means you need to try harder to behave if you get a bad grade that doesn’t mean you’re stupid it just means you need to spend more time studying
no one’s born being good at things you become good at things through hard work you’re not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new sport you don’t hit every note the first time you sing a song you’ve got to practice it’s the same with your schoolwork you might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right or read something a few times before you understand it or do a few drafts of a paper before it’s good enough to hand in
don’t be afraid to ask questions don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it i do that every day asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness it’s a sign of strength it shows you have the courage to admit when you don’t know something and to learn something new so find an adult you trust C a parent grandparent or teacher a coach or counselor C and ask them to help you stay on track to meet your goals
and even when you’re struggling even when you’re discouraged and you feel like other people have given up on you C don’t ever give up on yourself because when you give up on yourself you give up on your country
the story of america isn’t about people who quit when things got tough it’s about people who kept going who tried harder who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best
it’s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago and went on to wage a revolution and found this nation students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a depression and won a world war who fought for civil rights and put a man on the moon students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded google twitter and facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other
so today i want to ask you what’s your contribution going to be what problems are you going to solve what discoveries will you make what will a president who comes here in twenty or fifty or one hundred years say about what all of you did for this country
your families your teachers and i are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these questions i’m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books equipment and computers you need to learn but you’ve got to do your part too so i expect you to get serious this year i expect you to put your best effort into everything you do i expect great things from each of you so don’t let us down C don’t let your family or your country or yourself down make us all proud i know you can do it
thank you god bless you and god bless america
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