奧巴馬-為什么要上學(完整版)

　　

【正文】 want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your ,即使我們擁有最敬業(yè)的教師,最盡力的家長和全世界最好的學校——如果你們大家不履行你們的責任,不到校上課,不專心聽講,不聽家長、祖父祖母和其他大人的話,不付出取得成功所必須的勤奮努力,那么這一切都毫無用處,： want to start with the responsibility you have to single one of you has something that you’re good single one of you has something to you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that ’s the opportunity an education can you could be a great writermaybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaperbut you might not know it until you write that English paperthat English class paper that’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 ——甚至可能寫書或在報紙上發(fā)表文章————甚至可能設(shè)計出新一代iPhone或研制出新型藥物或疫苗———— no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you’ll need an education to do 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 cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good ’ve got to train for it and work for it and learn for ,、教師或警官嗎?你想當護士、建筑師、律師或軍人嗎?你必須接受良好的教育,為之努力, this isn’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 you’re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the ,’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 ’ll need the insights and criticalthinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more ’ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new panies that will create new jobs and boost our 、艾滋病及其他疾病,打擊犯罪和消除歧視,使我們的國家更公平、,增加就業(yè)機會, 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 don’t do thatif you quit on schoolyou’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your ,如果你們輟學,你們不僅僅是自暴自棄, I know it’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 it’s 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 were times when I missed having a father in my were times when I was lonely and I felt like I didn’t fit ,我父親離家而去,我是由一位單親母親撫養(yǎng)成人的,母親不得不工作,并時常為支付生活費用而苦苦掙扎, 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 my life could have easily taken a turn for the ,我也曾做過我如今不能引以為豪的一些事情, I wasI was got a lot of second chances, and I had the opportunity to go to college and law school and follow my wife, our First Lady Michelle Obama, she has a similar of her parents had gone to college, and they didn’t have a lot of they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this ,我有幸能上大學,上法學院,我們的第一夫人米歇爾?奧巴馬, ,她也是如此, of you might not have those you don’t have adults in your life who give you the support that you someone in your family has lost their job and there’s not enough money to go 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 , 20140929第三篇：奧巴馬演講稿：我們?yōu)槭裁匆蠈W奧巴馬演講稿：我們?yōu)槭裁匆蠈W時間：2009年9月8日地點：弗吉尼亞州，阿林頓市嗨，大家好！你們今天過得怎么樣？我現(xiàn)在和弗吉尼亞州阿林頓郡韋克菲爾德高中的學生們在一起，全國各地也有從幼兒園到高三的眾多學生們通過電視關(guān)注這里，我很高興你們能共同分享這一時刻。我要和你們談一談你們每個人的教育，以及在新的學年里，你們應當做些什么。首先，我想談?wù)勀銈儗τ谧约河惺裁簇熑巍Ｄ銈冃枰跀?shù)理科學課程上學習的知識和技能，去治療癌癥、艾滋那樣的疾病，和解決我們面臨的能源問題與環(huán)境問題；你們需要在歷史社科課程上培養(yǎng)出的觀察力與判斷力，來減輕和消除無家可歸與貧困、犯罪問題和各種歧視，讓這個國家變得更加公平和自由；你們需要在各類課程中逐漸累積和發(fā)展出來的創(chuàng)新意識和思維，去創(chuàng)業(yè)和建立新的公司與企業(yè)，來制造就業(yè)機會和推動經(jīng)濟的增長。但我很幸運。而在這片土地上的每個地方，千千萬萬和你一樣的年輕人正是這樣在書寫著自己的命運。史蒂夫（Shantell Steve）換過多次收養(yǎng)家庭，從小在治安很差的地區(qū)長大，但她努力爭取到了在當?shù)乇＝≌竟ぷ鞯臋C會、發(fā)起了一個讓青少年遠離犯罪團伙的項目，很快，她也將以優(yōu)異的成績從中學畢業(yè)，去大學深造。因為，成功是件難事。”他們的成功，源于他們明白人不能讓失敗左右自己——而是要從中吸取經(jīng)驗。——我每天都在這么做。例如我正在努力為你們提供更安全的教室、更多的書籍、更先進的設(shè)施與計算機。謝謝你們。（掌聲)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。不論在哪個年級，你們有些人可能希望暑假更長一點，今天早上還能多睡一小會兒。t too happy about getting up that a lot of times, I39。m here because I want to talk with you about your education and what39。ve talked about teachers39。s responsibility for setting high standards, and supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren39。s the opportunity an education can 。你或許能成為一名市長或參議員或最高法院的大法官——但你可能要在參加學生會的工作或辯論隊后才會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才華。And this isn39。ll need the insights and criticalthinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more 39。如果你們不這樣做，如果你們輟學，你們不僅僅是自暴自棄，也是拋棄自己的國家。我有親身感受。But I wasI was got a lot of second chances, and I had the opportunity to go to college and law school and follow my wife, our First Lady Michelle Obama, she has a similar of her parents had gone to college, and they didn39。s not enough money to go you live in a neighborhood where you don39。s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of is no excuse for not ，你的生活狀況——你的長相、出身、經(jīng)濟條件、家庭氛圍——都不是疏忽學業(yè)和態(tài)度惡劣的借口，這些不是你去跟老師頂嘴、逃課、或是輟學的借口，這些不是你不好好讀書的借口。Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, didn39。s headed to college this t any different from any of face challenges in their lives just like you some cases they39。ll decide to stand up for