奥巴马开学演讲稿
奥巴马开学演讲稿(中英) ——什学
阿文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
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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
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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
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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
美国总统奥巴马9月8日开学演讲 英文全文
hello everybody thank you thank youthank you everybody all right everybody go ahead and have a seat how iseverybody doing today (applause) how about tim spicer (applause) i am herewith students at wakefield high school in arlington virginia and we＇ve gotstudents tuning in from all across america from kindergarten through 12thgrade and i am just so glad that all could join us today and i want to thankwakefield for being such an outstanding host give yourselves a big round ofapplause (applause)
i know that for many of you today is thefirst day of school and for those of you in kindergarten or starting middleor high school it＇s your first day in a new school so it＇s understandable ifyou＇re a little nervous i imagine there are some seniors out there who arefeeling pretty good right now (applause) with just one more year to goand no matter what grade you＇re in some of you are probably wishing it werestill summer and you could＇ve stayed in bed just a little bit longer thismorning
i know that feeling when i was young myfamily lived overseas i lived in indonesia for a few years and my mother shedidn＇t have the money to send me where all the american kids went to schoolbut she thought it was important for me to keep up with an american educationso she decided to teach me extra lessons herself monday through friday butbecause she had to go to work the only time she could do it was at 430 in themorning
now as you might imagine i wasn＇t toohappy about getting up that early and a lot of times i＇d fall asleep rightthere at the kitchen table but whenever i＇d complain my mother would justgive me one of those looks and she＇d say this is no picnic for meeither buster (laughter)
so i know that some of you are stilladjusting to being back at school but i＇m here today because i have somethingimportant to discuss with you i＇m here because i want to talk with you aboutyour education and what＇s expected of all of you in this new school year
now i＇ve given a lot of speeches abouteducation and i＇ve talked about responsibility a lot
i＇ve talked about teachers＇ responsibilityfor inspiring students and pushing you to learn
i＇ve talked about your parents＇responsibility for making sure you stay on track and you get your homeworkdone and don＇t spend every waking hour in front of the tv or with thexbox
i＇ve talked a lot about your government＇sresponsibility for setting high standards and supporting teachers and principalsand turning around schools that aren＇t working where students aren＇t gettingthe opportunities that they deserve
but at the end of the day we can have themost dedicated teachers the most supportive parents the best schools in theworld and none of it will make a difference none of it will matter unlessall of you fulfill your responsibilities unless you show up to those schoolsunless you pay attention to those teachers unless you listen to your parentsand grandparents and other adults and put in the hard work it takes to succeedthat＇s what i want to focus on today the responsibility each of you has foryour education
i want to start with the responsibility youhave to yourself every single one of you has something that you＇re good atevery single one of you has something to offer and you have a responsibilityto yourself to discover what that is that＇s the opportunity an education canprovide
maybe you could be a great writer maybeeven good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper but you mightnot know it until you write that english paper that english class paperthat＇s assigned to you maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor maybeeven good enough to come up with the next iphone or the new medicine or vaccine but you might not know it until you do your project for your science classmaybe you could be a mayor or a senator or a supreme court justice but youmight not know that until you join student government or the debate team
and no matter what you want to do with yourlife i guarantee that you＇ll need an education to do it you want to be adoctor or a teacher or a police officer you want to be a nurse or an architecta lawyer or a member of our military you＇re going to need a good education forevery single one of those careers you cannot drop out of school and just dropinto a good job you＇ve got to train for it and work for it and learn for it
and this isn＇t just important for your ownlife and your own future what you make of your education will decide nothingless than the future of this country the future of america depends on youwhat you＇re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation canmeet our greatest challenges in the future
you＇ll need the knowledge andproblemsolving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases likecancer and aids and to develop new energy technologies and protect ourenvironment you＇ll need the insights and criticalthinking skills you gain inhistory and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness crime anddiscrimination and make our nation more fair and more free you＇ll need thecreativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companiesthat will create new jobs and boost our economy
we need every single one of you to developyour talents and your skills and your intellect so you can help us old folks solveour most difficult problems if you don＇t do that if you quit on school you＇re not just quitting on yourself you＇re quitting on your country
now i know it＇s not always easy to do wellin school i know a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that canmake it hard to focus on your schoolwork
i get it i know what it＇s like my fatherleft my family when i was two years old and i was raised by a single mom whohad to work and who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn＇t always ableto give us the things that other kids had there were times when i missedhaving a father in my life there were times when i was lonely and i felt likei didn＇t fit in
so i wasn＇t always as focused as i shouldhave been on school and i did some things i＇m not proud of and i got in moretrouble than i should have and my life could have easily taken a turn for theworse
but i was i was lucky i got a lot ofsecond chances and i had the opportunity to go to college and law school andfollow my dreams my wife our first lady michelle obama she has a similarstory neither of her parents had gone to college and they didn＇t have a lotof money but they worked hard and she worked hard so that she could go tothe best schools in this country
some of you might not have thoseadvantages maybe you don＇t have adults in your life who give you the supportthat you need maybe someone in your family has lost their job and there＇s notenough money to go around maybe you live in a neighborhood where you don＇tfeel safe or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren＇tright
but at the end of the day the circumstancesof your life what you look like where you come from how much money youhave what you＇ve got going on at home none of that is an excuse forneglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in school that＇s no excusefor talking back to your teacher or cutting class or dropping out of schoolthere is no excuse for not trying
where you are right now doesn＇t have todetermine where you＇ll end up no one＇s written your destiny for you becausehere in america you write your own destiny you make your own future
that＇s what young people like you are doingevery day all across america
young people like jazmin perez from romatexas jazmin didn＇t speak english when she first started school neither ofher parents had gone to college but she worked hard earned good grades andgot a scholarship to brown university is now in graduate school studyingpublic health on her way to becoming dr jazmin perez
i＇m thinking about andoni schultz from losaltos california who＇s fought brain cancer since he was three he＇s had toendure all sorts of treatments and surgeries one of which affected his memoryso it took him much longer hundreds of extra hours to do his schoolworkbut he never fell behind he＇s headed to college this fall
and then there＇s shantell steve from myhometown of chicago illinois even when bouncing from foster home to fosterhome in the toughest neighborhoods in the city she managed to get a job at alocal health care center start a program to keep young people out of gangsand she＇s on track to graduate high school with honors and go on tocollege and jazmin andoniand shantell aren＇t any different from any of you they face challenges intheir lives just like you do in some cases they＇ve got it a lot worse off thanmany of you but they refused to give up they chose to take responsibility fortheir lives for their education and set goals for themselves and i expectall of you to do the same
that＇s why today i＇m calling on each of youto set your own goals for your education and do everything you can to meetthem your goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework payingattention in class or spending some time each day reading a book maybe you＇lldecide to get involved in an extracurricular activity or volunteer in yourcommunity maybe you＇ll decide to stand up for kids who are being teased orbullied because of who they are or how they look because you believe like ido that all young people deserve a safe environment to study and learn maybeyou＇ll decide to take better care of yourself so you can be more ready tolearn and along those lines by the way i hope all of you are washing yourhands a lot and that you stay home from school when you don＇t feel well so wecan keep people from getting the flu this fall and winter
but whatever you resolve to do i want youto commit to it i want you to really work at it
i know that sometimes you getthat 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 realitytv star chances are you＇re not going to be any of those things
the truth is being successful is hard youwon＇t love every subject that you study you won＇t click with every teacherthat you have not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant toyour life right at this minute and you won＇t necessarily succeed at everythingthe first time you try
that＇s okay some of the most successfulpeople in the world are the ones who＇ve had the most failures jk rowling＇s who wrote harry potter her first harry potter book was rejected 12 timesbefore it was finally published michael jordan was cut from his high schoolbasketball team he lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots duringhis career but he once said i have failed over and over and over againin my life and that＇s why i succeed
these people succeeded because theyunderstood that you can＇t let your failures define you you have to let yourfailures teach you you have to let them show you what to do differently thenext time so if you get into trouble that doesn＇t mean you＇re a troublemakerit means you need to try harder to act right if you get a bad grade thatdoesn＇t mean you＇re stupid it just means you need to spend more timestudying
no one＇s born being good at all things youbecome good at things through hard work you＇re not a varsity athlete the firsttime you play a new sport you don＇t hit every note the first time you sing asong you＇ve got to practice the same principle applies to your schoolworkyou might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right youmight have to read something a few times before you understand it youdefinitely have to do a few drafts of a paper before it＇s good enough to handin
don＇t be afraid to ask questions don＇t beafraid to ask for help when you need it i do that every day asking for helpisn＇t a sign of weakness it＇s a sign of strength because it shows you have thecourage to admit when you don＇t know something and that then allows you tolearn something new so find an adult that you trust a parent a grandparentor teacher a coach or a counselor and ask them to help you stay on track tomeet your goals
and even when you＇re struggling even whenyou＇re discouraged and you feel like other people have given up on you don＇tever give up on yourself because when you give up on yourself you give up onyour country
thestory of america isn＇t about people who quit when things got tough it＇s aboutpeople who kept going who tried harder who loved their country too much to doanything less than their best
it＇s the story of students who sat whereyou sit 250 years ago and went on to wage a revolution and they founded thisnation young people students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcamea depression and won a world war who fought for civil rights and put a man on themoon students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded google andtwitter and facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other
so today i want to ask all of you what＇syour contribution going to be what problems are you going to solve whatdiscoveries will you make what will a president who comes here in 20 or 50 or100 years say about what all of you did for this country
now your families your teachers and iare doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need toanswer these questions i＇m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get youthe books and the equipment and the computers you need to learn but you＇ve gotto do your part too so i expect all of you to get serious this year i expectyou to put your best effort into everything you do i expect great things fromeach of you so don＇t let us down don＇t let your family down or your countrydown most of all don＇t let yourself down make us all proud
thank you very much everybody god blessyou
god bless america thank you
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奥巴马开学演讲稿(中英) ——什学
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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
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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
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美国总统奥巴马9月8日开学演讲 英文全文
hello everybody thank you thank youthank you everybody all right everybody go ahead and have a seat how iseverybody doing today (applause) how about tim spicer (applause) i am herewith students at wakefield high school in arlington virginia and we＇ve gotstudents tuning in from all across america from kindergarten through 12thgrade and i am just so glad that all could join us today and i want to thankwakefield for being such an outstanding host give yourselves a big round ofapplause (applause)
i know that for many of you today is thefirst day of school and for those of you in kindergarten or starting middleor high school it＇s your first day in a new school so it＇s understandable ifyou＇re a little nervous i imagine there are some seniors out there who arefeeling pretty good right now (applause) with just one more year to goand no matter what grade you＇re in some of you are probably wishing it werestill summer and you could＇ve stayed in bed just a little bit longer thismorning
i know that feeling when i was young myfamily lived overseas i lived in indonesia for a few years and my mother shedidn＇t have the money to send me where all the american kids went to schoolbut she thought it was important for me to keep up with an american educationso she decided to teach me extra lessons herself monday through friday butbecause she had to go to work the only time she could do it was at 430 in themorning
now as you might imagine i wasn＇t toohappy about getting up that early and a lot of times i＇d fall asleep rightthere at the kitchen table but whenever i＇d complain my mother would justgive me one of those looks and she＇d say this is no picnic for meeither buster (laughter)
so i know that some of you are stilladjusting to being back at school but i＇m here today because i have somethingimportant to discuss with you i＇m here because i want to talk with you aboutyour education and what＇s expected of all of you in this new school year
now i＇ve given a lot of speeches abouteducation and i＇ve talked about responsibility a lot
i＇ve talked about teachers＇ responsibilityfor inspiring students and pushing you to learn
i＇ve talked about your parents＇responsibility for making sure you stay on track and you get your homeworkdone and don＇t spend every waking hour in front of the tv or with thexbox
i＇ve talked a lot about your government＇sresponsibility for setting high standards and supporting teachers and principalsand turning around schools that aren＇t working where students aren＇t gettingthe opportunities that they deserve
but at the end of the day we can have themost dedicated teachers the most supportive parents the best schools in theworld and none of it will make a difference none of it will matter unlessall of you fulfill your responsibilities unless you show up to those schoolsunless you pay attention to those teachers unless you listen to your parentsand grandparents and other adults and put in the hard work it takes to succeedthat＇s what i want to focus on today the responsibility each of you has foryour education
i want to start with the responsibility youhave to yourself every single one of you has something that you＇re good atevery single one of you has something to offer and you have a responsibilityto yourself to discover what that is that＇s the opportunity an education canprovide
maybe you could be a great writer maybeeven good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper but you mightnot know it until you write that english paper that english class paperthat＇s assigned to you maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor maybeeven good enough to come up with the next iphone or the new medicine or vaccine but you might not know it until you do your project for your science classmaybe you could be a mayor or a senator or a supreme court justice but youmight not know that until you join student government or the debate team
and no matter what you want to do with yourlife i guarantee that you＇ll need an education to do it you want to be adoctor or a teacher or a police officer you want to be a nurse or an architecta lawyer or a member of our military you＇re going to need a good education forevery single one of those careers you cannot drop out of school and just dropinto a good job you＇ve got to train for it and work for it and learn for it
and this isn＇t just important for your ownlife and your own future what you make of your education will decide nothingless than the future of this country the future of america depends on youwhat you＇re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation canmeet our greatest challenges in the future
you＇ll need the knowledge andproblemsolving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases likecancer and aids and to develop new energy technologies and protect ourenvironment you＇ll need the insights and criticalthinking skills you gain inhistory and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness crime anddiscrimination and make our nation more fair and more free you＇ll need thecreativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companiesthat will create new jobs and boost our economy
we need every single one of you to developyour talents and your skills and your intellect so you can help us old folks solveour most difficult problems if you don＇t do that if you quit on school you＇re not just quitting on yourself you＇re quitting on your country
now i know it＇s not always easy to do wellin school i know a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that canmake it hard to focus on your schoolwork
i get it i know what it＇s like my fatherleft my family when i was two years old and i was raised by a single mom whohad to work and who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn＇t always ableto give us the things that other kids had there were times when i missedhaving a father in my life there were times when i was lonely and i felt likei didn＇t fit in
so i wasn＇t always as focused as i shouldhave been on school and i did some things i＇m not proud of and i got in moretrouble than i should have and my life could have easily taken a turn for theworse
but i was i was lucky i got a lot ofsecond chances and i had the opportunity to go to college and law school andfollow my dreams my wife our first lady michelle obama she has a similarstory neither of her parents had gone to college and they didn＇t have a lotof money but they worked hard and she worked hard so that she could go tothe best schools in this country
some of you might not have thoseadvantages maybe you don＇t have adults in your life who give you the supportthat you need maybe someone in your family has lost their job and there＇s notenough money to go around maybe you live in a neighborhood where you don＇tfeel safe or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren＇tright
but at the end of the day the circumstancesof your life what you look like where you come from how much money youhave what you＇ve got going on at home none of that is an excuse forneglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in school that＇s no excusefor talking back to your teacher or cutting class or dropping out of schoolthere is no excuse for not trying
where you are right now doesn＇t have todetermine where you＇ll end up no one＇s written your destiny for you becausehere in america you write your own destiny you make your own future
that＇s what young people like you are doingevery day all across america
young people like jazmin perez from romatexas jazmin didn＇t speak english when she first started school neither ofher parents had gone to college but she worked hard earned good grades andgot a scholarship to brown university is now in graduate school studyingpublic health on her way to becoming dr jazmin perez
i＇m thinking about andoni schultz from losaltos california who＇s fought brain cancer since he was three he＇s had toendure all sorts of treatments and surgeries one of which affected his memoryso it took him much longer hundreds of extra hours to do his schoolworkbut he never fell behind he＇s headed to college this fall
and then there＇s shantell steve from myhometown of chicago illinois even when bouncing from foster home to fosterhome in the toughest neighborhoods in the city she managed to get a job at alocal health care center start a program to keep young people out of gangsand she＇s on track to graduate high school with honors and go on tocollege and jazmin andoniand shantell aren＇t any different from any of you they face challenges intheir lives just like you do in some cases they＇ve got it a lot worse off thanmany of you but they refused to give up they chose to take responsibility fortheir lives for their education and set goals for themselves and i expectall of you to do the same
that＇s why today i＇m calling on each of youto set your own goals for your education and do everything you can to meetthem your goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework payingattention in class or spending some time each day reading a book maybe you＇lldecide to get involved in an extracurricular activity or volunteer in yourcommunity maybe you＇ll decide to stand up for kids who are being teased orbullied because of who they are or how they look because you believe like ido that all young people deserve a safe environment to study and learn maybeyou＇ll decide to take better care of yourself so you can be more ready tolearn and along those lines by the way i hope all of you are washing yourhands a lot and that you stay home from school when you don＇t feel well so wecan keep people from getting the flu this fall and winter
but whatever you resolve to do i want youto commit to it i want you to really work at it
i know that sometimes you getthat 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 realitytv star chances are you＇re not going to be any of those things
the truth is being successful is hard youwon＇t love every subject that you study you won＇t click with every teacherthat you have not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant toyour life right at this minute and you won＇t necessarily succeed at everythingthe first time you try
that＇s okay some of the most successfulpeople in the world are the ones who＇ve had the most failures jk rowling＇s who wrote harry potter her first harry potter book was rejected 12 timesbefore it was finally published michael jordan was cut from his high schoolbasketball team he lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots duringhis career but he once said i have failed over and over and over againin my life and that＇s why i succeed
these people succeeded because theyunderstood that you can＇t let your failures define you you have to let yourfailures teach you you have to let them show you what to do differently thenext time so if you get into trouble that doesn＇t mean you＇re a troublemakerit means you need to try harder to act right if you get a bad grade thatdoesn＇t mean you＇re stupid it just means you need to spend more timestudying
no one＇s born being good at all things youbecome good at things through hard work you＇re not a varsity athlete the firsttime you play a new sport you don＇t hit every note the first time you sing asong you＇ve got to practice the same principle applies to your schoolworkyou might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right youmight have to read something a few times before you understand it youdefinitely have to do a few drafts of a paper before it＇s good enough to handin
don＇t be afraid to ask questions don＇t beafraid to ask for help when you need it i do that every day asking for helpisn＇t a sign of weakness it＇s a sign of strength because it shows you have thecourage to admit when you don＇t know something and that then allows you tolearn something new so find an adult that you trust a parent a grandparentor teacher a coach or a counselor and ask them to help you stay on track tomeet your goals
and even when you＇re struggling even whenyou＇re discouraged and you feel like other people have given up on you don＇tever give up on yourself because when you give up on yourself you give up onyour country
thestory of america isn＇t about people who quit when things got tough it＇s aboutpeople who kept going who tried harder who loved their country too much to doanything less than their best
it＇s the story of students who sat whereyou sit 250 years ago and went on to wage a revolution and they founded thisnation young people students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcamea depression and won a world war who fought for civil rights and put a man on themoon students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded google andtwitter and facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other
so today i want to ask all of you what＇syour contribution going to be what problems are you going to solve whatdiscoveries will you make what will a president who comes here in 20 or 50 or100 years say about what all of you did for this country
now your families your teachers and iare doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need toanswer these questions i＇m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get youthe books and the equipment and the computers you need to learn but you＇ve gotto do your part too so i expect all of you to get serious this year i expectyou to put your best effort into everything you do i expect great things fromeach of you so don＇t let us down don＇t let your family down or your countrydown most of all don＇t let yourself down make us all proud
thank you very much everybody god blessyou
god bless america thank you
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