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奥巴马为什么要上学演讲稿英文
奥巴马
1961
年
8
月
4
日出生于美国夏威夷州檀香山，
美国民主
党籍政治家，第
44
任美国总统，为美国历史上第一位非洲裔总统。
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美国总统奥巴马
9
月
8
日开学演讲
Hello,
everybody!
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
everybody.
All
right,
everybody
go
ahead
and
have
a
seat.
How
is
everybody
doing
today?
(Applause.)
How
about
Tim
Spicer?
(Applause.) I am here with students at Wakefield
High
School
in
Arlington,
Virginia.
And
we've
got
students
tuning in from all
across America, from kindergarten through
12th grade. And I am just so glad that
all could join us today.
And I want to
thank Wakefield for being such an outstanding
host. Give yourselves a big round of
applause. (Applause.)
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
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pretty good right now -- (applause) --
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
bit
longer
this
morning.
I
know
that
feeling.
When
I
was
young,
my
family
lived
overseas. I lived in
Indonesia for a few years. And my mother,
she
didn'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 education. So
she
decided
to
teach
me
extra
lessons
herself,
Monday
through Friday. But
because she had to go to work, the only
time she could do it was at 4:30 in the
morning.
Now,
as
you
might
imagine,
I
wasn't
too
happy
about
getting
up
that
early.
And
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
she'd
say,
"This
is
no
picnic
for
me
either,
buster." (Laughter.)
So
I
know
that
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
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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 about
responsibility a lot.
I've
talked
about
teachers'
responsibility
for
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
homework
done, and don't spend every waking hour in
front of the TV or with the Xbox.
I've
talked
a
lot
about
your
government's
responsibility
for
setting
high
standards,
and
supporting
teachers
and
principals,
and
turning
around
schools
that
aren't
working,
where
students
aren't
getting
the
opportunities that they deserve.
But at the end of the day, we can have
the most dedicated
teachers, the most
supportive parents, the best schools in the
world -- and 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
succeed.
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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
that 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 great
writer
-- maybe even good
enough to write a book or articles in a
newspaper -- but you
might
not
know
it
until
you
write
that
English
paper
--
that
English
class
paper
that's
assigned
to
you.
Maybe
you
could
be
an
innovator
or
an
inventor
--
maybe
even
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 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,
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
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military?
You're
going
to
need
a
good
education
for
every
single
one
of
those
careers.
You
cannot
drop
out
of
school and just drop into
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
own
life
and
your own future. What
you make of your education will decide
nothing
less
than
the
future
of
this
country.
The
future
of
America
depends on you. 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
problem-solving
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
and your skills and your
intellect so you can help us old folks
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solve our 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 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 it's like. My father left my family
when I was two years old, and I was
raised by a single mom
who had to work
and who struggled at times to pay the bills
and wasn't always able to give us
the things that other
kids had. There
were times when I missed having a father in
my
life.
There
were
times
when
I
was
lonely
and
I
felt
like
I
didn't
fit in.
So I wasn't always as
focused as I should have been
on
school, and I did some things I'm not proud
of, and I
got in more trouble than I
should have. And my life could have
easily taken a turn for the worse.
But I was -- I was lucky. I got a lot
of second chances, and I
had
the
opportunity
to
go
to
college
and
law
school
and
follow
my
dreams.
My
wife,
our
First
Lady
Michelle
Obama,
she
has
a
similar
story.
Neither
of
her
parents
had
gone
to
college,
and
they
didn't
have
a
lot
of
money.
But
they
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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 --
what you look like, where you
come from, how much money
you have,
what you've got going on at home -- none of
that
is an
excuse
for
neglecting
your
homework or having a
bad
attitude in school. That's no excuse for
talking back
to
your
teacher,
or
cutting
class,
or
dropping
out
of
school.
There is 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, because 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.
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Young
people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, Texas. Jazmin
didn't
speak
English
when
she
first
started
school.
Neither
of
her
parents
had
gone to
college.
But
she
worked
hard,
earned
good
grades,
and
got
a
scholarship
to
Brown
University -- is now
in graduate school, studying public health,
on her way to becoming Dr. Jazmin
Perez.
I'm
thinking
about
Andoni
Schultz,
from
Los
Altos,
California, who's
fought brain cancer since he was three.
He's had to endure all sorts of
treatments and surgeries,
one of which
affected his memory, so it took him much longer
--
hundreds
of
extra
hours
--
to
do
his
schoolwork.
But
he
never fell behind.
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
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 she's
on
track
to
graduate
high
school
with
honors
and
go
on
to
college.
And
Jazmin,
Andoni,
and
Shantell
aren't
any
different
from any
of
you.
They face challenges
in
their
lives
just
like you do. In some cases they've got it a
lot worse
off than many of you. But
they refused to give up. They chose
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to take responsibility for
their lives, 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
--
and
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
some
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 young
people 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, by
the way, I hope all of you are washing
your hands a lot, and
that you stay
home from school when you don't feel well,
so we can keep people from getting the
flu this fall and winter.
But 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
that 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.
Chances
are
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you're not going to be any of those
things.
The truth is, being successful
is hard. You won't love
every
subject that you study. You won't click with
every
teacher that you have.
Not
every homework
assignment
will
seem
completely relevant to your life right at this
minute. And
you
won't
necessarily
succeed
at
everything
the
first
time you try.
That's okay. Some of the most
successful people in
the world are the
ones who've had the most failures. J.K.
Rowling's
--
who
wrote
Harry
Potter
--
her
first
Harry
Potter
book
was
rejected
12
times
before
it
was
finally
published.
Michael
Jordan
was
cut
from
his
high
school
basketball
team.
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's why I succeed."
These
people
succeeded
because
they
understood
that
you can't let your
failures define you -- you have to let
your failures teach you. You have to
let them show you what to
do
differently
the
next
time.
So
if
you
get
into
trouble,
that
doesn't mean
you're a troublemaker, it means you
need
to
try
harder
to
act
right.
If
you
get
a
bad
grade,
that
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