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But at the end of the day, we can have the mostdedicated 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 ofyou fulfill your responsibilities, unless you show up to those schools, unlessyou pay attention to those teachers, unless you listen to your parents andgrandparents and other adults and put in the hard work it takes to succeed.That*s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has foryour education.
I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself. Every single oneof you has something that you*re good at. Every single one of you has somethingto 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 orarticles in a newspaper -- but you might not know it until you write thatEnglish paper -- that English class paper that*s assigned to you. Maybe youcould be an innovator or an inventor -- maybe even good enough to come up withthe next iPhone or the new medicine or vaccine -- but you might not know ituntil you do your project for your science class. Maybe you could be a mayor ora senator or a Supreme Court justice -- but you might not know that until youjoin student government or the debate team.
And no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you*ll needan education to do it. You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a policeofficer? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of ourmilitary? You*re going to need a good education for every single one of thosecareers. You cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You*vegot 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 youmake of your education will decide nothing less than the future of thiscountry. The future of America depends on you. What you*re learning in schooltoday will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges inthe future.
You*ll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science andmath to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energytechnologies and protect our environment. You*ll need the insights andcritical-thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fightpoverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation morefair and more free. You*ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in allyour classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost oureconomy.
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We need every single one of you to develop your talents and your skills andyour intellect so you can help us old folks solve our most difficult problems.If you don*t do that -- if you quit on school -- you*re not just quitting onyourself, 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 havechallenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on yourschoolwork.
I get it. I know what it*s like. My father left my family when I was two yearsold, and I was raised by a single mom who had to work and who struggled attimes to pay the bills and wasn*t always able to give us the things that otherkids had. There were times when I missed having a father in my life. There weretimes 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 somethings I*m not proud of, and I got in more trouble than I should have. And mylife 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 theopportunity to go to college and law school and follow my dreams. My wife, ourFirst Lady Michelle Obama, she has a similar story. Neither of her parents hadgone to college, and they didn*t have a lot of money. But they worked hard, andshe 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 inyour life who give you the support that you need. Maybe someone in your familyhas lost their job and there*s not enough money to go around. Maybe you live ina neighborhood where you don*t feel safe, or have friends who are pressuringyou to do things you know aren*t right.
But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life -- what you looklike, where you come from, how much money you have, what you*ve got going on athome -- none of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a badattitude in school. That*s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, orcutting 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*swritten your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your owndestiny. 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 herparents had gone to college. But she worked hard, earned good grades, and got ascholarship to Brown University -- is now in graduate school, studying publichealth, on her way to becoming Dr. Jazmin Perez.
I*m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who*s foughtbrain cancer since he was three. He*s had to endure all sorts of treatments andsurgeries, 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*sheaded to college this fall.
And then there*s Shantell Steve, from my hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Evenwhen bouncing from foster home to foster home in the toughest neighborhoods inthe city, she managed to get a job at a local health care center, start aprogram to keep young people out of gangs, and she*s on track to graduate highschool with honors and go on to college.
And Jazmin, Andoni, and Shantell aren*t any different from any of you. Theyface challenges in their lives just like you do. In some cases they*ve got it alot worse off than many of you. But they refused to give up. They chose to takeresponsibility for their lives, for their education, and set goals forthemselves. 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 youreducation -- and do everything you can to meet them. Your goal can be somethingas simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spendingsome time each day reading a book. Maybe you*ll decide to get involved in anextracurricular activity, or volunteer in your community. Maybe you*ll decideto stand up for kids who are being teased or bullied because of who they are orhow they look, because you believe, like I do, that all young people deserve asafe environment to study and learn. Maybe you*ll decide to take better care ofyourself 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 fromschool when you don*t feel well, so we can keep people from getting the fluthis fall and winter.
But whatever you resolve to do, I want you to commit to it. I want you toreally work at it.
I know that sometimes you get that sense from TV that you can be rich andsuccessful without any hard work -- that your ticket to success is throughrapping or basketball or being a reality TV star. Chances are you*re not goingto be any of those things.
The truth is, being successful is hard. You won*t love every subject that youstudy. You won*t click with every teacher that you have. Not every homeworkassignment will seem completely relevant to your life right at this minute. Andyou won*t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try.
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That*s okay. Some of the most successful people in the world are the oneswho*ve had the most failures. J.K. Rowling*s -- who wrote Harry Potter -- herfirst Harry Potter book was rejected 12 times before it was finally published.Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. He lost hundredsof 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 Isucceed."
These people succeeded because they understood that you can*t let your failuresdefine you -- you have to let your failures teach you. You have to let themshow you what to do differently the next time. So if you get into trouble, thatdoesn*t mean you*re a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to actright. If you get a bad grade, that doesn*t mean you*re stupid, it just meansyou need to spend more time studying.
No one*s born being good at all things. You become good at things through hardwork. You*re not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new sport. Youdon*t hit every note the first time you sing a song. You*ve got to practice.The same principle applies to your schoolwork. You might have to do a mathproblem a few times before you get it right. You might have to read something afew times before you understand it. You definitely have to do a few drafts of apaper 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 needit. I do that every day. Asking for help isn*t a sign of weakness, it*s a signof strength because it shows you have the courage to admit when you don*t knowsomething, and that then allows you to learn something new. So find an adult thatyou trust -- a parent, a grandparent or teacher, a coach or a counselor -- andask them to help you stay on track to meet your goals.
And even when you*re struggling, even when you*re discouraged, and you feellike other people have given up on you, don*t ever give up on yourself, becausewhen 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*sabout people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too muchto do anything less than their best.
It*s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on towage a revolution and they founded this nation. Young people. Students who satwhere you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; whofought for civil rights and put a man on the moon. Students who sat where yousit 20 years ago who founded Google and Twitter and Facebook and changed theway we communicate with each other.
So today, I want to ask all of you, what*s your contribution going to be? Whatproblems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will aPresident who comes here in 20 or 50 or 100 years say about what all of you didfor this country?
Now, your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to makesure you have the education you need to answer these questions. I*m workinghard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books and the equipment and thecomputers you need to learn. But you*ve got to do your part, too. So I expectall of you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort intoeverything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don*t let usdown. Don*t let your family down or your country down. Most of all, don*t letyourself down. Make us all proud.
Thank you very much, everybody. God bless you. God bless America. Thank you.(Applause.)
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