奥巴马的开学演讲

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推荐第1篇：奥巴马开学演讲

我们为什么要学习

我们为什么要学习，这应该是每个学生都会思考的问题吧，可能有些人已经明确了答案，可能更大一部分人，尤其是青少年还在茫然着。日前美国总统奥巴马做出了开学演讲，以自己的观点阐述了我们之所以要学习的原因

他认为对于自己的教育，我们中每一个人的责任。正如中国的古话：天生我才必有用。每一个人都是有用之材，而发现自己的才能是什么，就是我们要对自己担起的责任。教育给我们提供了发现自己才能的机会。

他举了几个例子：或许有的人能写出优美的文字——甚至有一天能让那些文字出现在书籍和报刊上——但假如不在课上经常练习写作，他不会发现自己有这样的天赋；或许有的人能成为一个发明家、创造家——甚至设计出像今天的iPhone一样流行的产品，或研制出新的药物与疫苗——但假如不在自然科学课程上做上几次实验，他不会知道自己有这样的天赋；或许有的人能成为一名议员或最高法院法官，但假如他不去加入什么学生会或参加几次辩论赛，他也不会发现自己的才能。

他说的很对，不管我们将来想要做什么，我们都需要相应的教育。无论你选择什么职业，良好的教育都必不可少，这世上不存在不学习就能拿到好工作的美梦，任何工作，都需要汗水、训练与学习。

就像是我们需要在数理科学课程上学习的知识和技能，去治疗癌症、艾滋那样的疾病，和解决我们面临的能源问题与环境问题；我们需要在历史社科课程上培养出的观察力与判断力，来减轻和消除无家可归与贫困、犯罪问题和各种歧视，让这个国家变得更加公平和自由；我们需要在各类课程中逐渐累积和发展出来的创新意识和思维，去创业和建立新的公司与企业，来制造就业机会和推动经济的增长。

如他所说，在那么多顽劣的人最后都通过努力获得成功下，我们的长相、出身、经济条件、家庭氛围——都不是疏忽学业和态度恶劣的借口。

我们的未来，并不取决于我们现在的状况有多好或多坏。没有人为你编排好你的命运，不论是在美国，还是中国，我们的命运都是由自己书写，我们的未来由自己掌握。在奥巴马的演讲中还提到了加利福尼亚州洛斯拉图斯市的安多尼.舒尔兹（Andoni Schultz），一个从三岁起就开始与脑癌病魔做斗争，熬过了一次次治疗与手术的勇敢之人——因为一次手术影响了他的记忆，因此他得花出比常人多几百个小时的时间来完成学业，但他从不曾落下自己的功课。最后于这个秋天，他要开始在大学读书了。还有贾斯敏、安多尼和香特尔与我们没有什么不同。和我们一样，他们也在生活中遭遇各种各样的困难与问题，但他们拒绝放弃，他们选择为自己的教育担起责任、给自己定下奋斗的目标。

同时奥巴马还阐述有些时候，电视上播放的节目会让我们产生这样那样的错觉，似乎我们可以不需要付出多大的努力就能腰缠万贯、功成名就——有的人会认为只要会唱rap、会打篮球或参加个什么真人秀节目就能坐享其成，但现实是，我们几乎没有可能走上其中任何一条道路。

因为，成功是件难事。我们不可能对要读的每门课程都兴趣盎然，我们不可能和每名带课教师都相处顺利，我们也不可能每次都遇上看起来和现实生活有关的作业。而且，并不是每件事，我们都能在头一次尝试时获得成功。

但那没有关系。因为在这个世界上，最最成功的人们往往也经历过最多的失败。J.K.罗琳的第一本《哈利·波特》被出版商拒绝了十二次才最终出版；迈克尔·乔丹上高中时被学校的篮球队刷了下来，在他的职业生涯里，他输了几百场比赛、投失过几千次射篮。他们的成功，源于他们明白人不能让失败左右自己——而是要从中吸取经验。从失败中，你可以明白下一次自己可以做出怎样的改变；假如你惹了什么麻烦，那并不说明你就是个捣蛋贵，而是在提醒你，在将来要对自己有更严格的要求；假如你考了个低分，那并不说明你就比别人笨，而是在告诉你，自己得在学习上花更多的时间。

没有哪一个人一生出来就擅长做什么事情的，只有努力才能培养出技能。任何人都不是在第一次接触一项体育运动时就成为校队的代表，任何人都不是在第一次唱一首歌时就找准每一个音，一切都需要熟能生巧。对于学业也是一样，我们或许要反复运算才能解出一道数学题的正确答案，我们或许需要读一段文字好几遍才能理解它的意思，我们或许得把论文改上好几次才能符合提交的标准。这都是很正常的。我们所要明确并相信的是我们一定可以！

推荐第2篇：奥巴马开学演讲

美国总统奥巴马9月8日开学演讲

Thank you! Hello! Thank you. Thank you. Well, hello, Philadelphia! And hello, Masterman. It is wonderful to see all of you. What a terrific introduction by Kelly.Give Kelly a big round of applause.

I was saying backstage that when I was in high school, I could not have done that.I would have muffed it up somehow.So we are so proud of you and everything that you’ve done. And to all the students here, I’m thrilled to be here.

We’ve got a couple introductions I want to make. First of all, you’ve got the outstanding governor of Pennsylvania, Ed Rendell, in the house.

The mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter, is here.

Congreman Chaka Fattah is here.

Congrewoman Allyson Schwartz is here.Your own principal, Marge Neff, is here.The school superintendent, Arlene Ackerman, is here and doing a great job.

And the Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, is here.

谢谢！你们好！谢谢。谢谢。你好，费城！你好，马斯特曼。见到你们真是太好了。Kelly的介绍真是太棒了。让我们对Kelly报以热烈的掌声。在后台的时候我说，我上高中的时候我就做不这么好，我可能会弄的一团糟。所以让我们为你和你做的一切自豪吧。站在这里我很激动。

我想介绍几个人。首先，来到这儿的有，杰出的宾夕法尼亚州州长， Ed Rendell。费城市长，Michael Nutter。国会议员Fattah和Allyson Schwartz。你们的校长Marge Neff。学校管理人Arlene Ackerman是这个学校的，并且为学校做了很大的贡献。还有教育部秘书长Arne Duncan。

And I am here. And I am thrilled to be here. I am just so excited. I’ve heard such great things about what all of you are doing, both the students and the teachers and the staff here.Today is about welcoming all of you, and all of America’s students, back to school, even though I know you’ve been in school for a little bit now. And I can’t think of a better place to do it than at Masterman.Because you are one of the best schools in Philadelphia. You are a leader in helping students succeed in the claroom. Just last week, you were recognized by a National Blue Ribbon -- as a National Blue Ribbon School because of your record of achievement. And that is a testament to everybody here –- to the students, to the parents, to the teachers, to the school leaders. It’s an example of excellence that I hope communities acro America can embrace.

还有我。我感到非常的激动。我耳闻了你们做的那些伟大的事，这里面有在校的学生，老师和工作人员。今天欢迎你们，欢迎每一个美国学生回校上课，当然你们在学校已经呆了一段时间了。我想不出除了在Masterman外，还有哪个地方更适合做这件事。因为你们是费城最好的学校之一。你们在教育方面是领头军。就在上周，由于你们的卓越贡献，被授为国家蓝丝带勋章。这是对每个人的见证，对学生，家长，老师还有学校领导人。我希望全美的社会团体都能欣然接受这个杰出代表的例子。

new

friendships

and strengthening old ones, of joining a school club, or trying out for a team. The poibilities of growing into a better student and a better person and making not just your family proud but making yourself proud.

But I know some of you may also be a little nervous about starting a new school year. Maybe you’re making the jump from elementary to middle school, or from middle school to high school, and you’re worried about what that’s going to be like. Maybe you’re starting a new school. You’re not sure how you’ll like it, trying to figure out how you’re going to fit in. Or maybe you’re a senior, and you’re anxious about the whole college proce; about where to apply and whether you can afford to go to college.

几周前，我和Michelle为Sasha和Malia上学的事做准备。她们两个对这非常的期待。我敢打赌她们和你们一样，有着相同的感觉。你们为夏天的逝去而神伤，但是你们更应该期待新的一年。如你们可以结交新的朋友，加深同老朋友的感情，加入学校俱乐部，参加各种团队的选拔赛。成长为一个更优秀的学生和个人，不仅仅让你的家人自豪，同样让你们自己也很有成就感。我知道，你们中有些人在新学年会有些紧张。或许你刚从小学升到初中，从初中升到高中，会担心，新的学年将会是什么样的呢。也许你进入一所新的学校，不知道是否会喜欢这个学校，想着怎么来融入这个学校。或许你到了高三年级，对整个的大学入学程序感到不安，比如申请那里的学校，能不能支付上大学的费用等等。

And beyond all those concerns, I know a lot of you are also feeling the strain of some difficult times. You know what’s going on in the news and you also know what’s going on in some of your own families. You’ve read about the war in Afghanistan. You hear about the receion that we’ve been through. And sometimes maybe you’re seeing the worries in your parents’ faces or sense it in their voice.

So a lot of you as a consequence, because we’re going through a tough time a country, are having to act a lot older than you are. You got to be strong for your family while your brother or sister is serving overseas, or you’ve got to look after younger siblings while your mom is working that second shift. Or maybe some of you who are little bit older, you’re taking on a part-time job while your dad’s out of work.And that\'s a lot to handle. It’s more than you should have to handle. And it may make you wonder at times what your own future will look like, whether you’re going to be able to succeed in school, whether you should maybe set your sights a little lower, scale back your dreams.

除此之外，我知道你们还有来自困难时期的压力。你们知道新闻内容，知道你们一些家庭中发发生的事情。你们读过有关阿富汗战争的信息，听说过我们经历过的经济不景气。有时你们还看到了双亲脸上挂着的忧虑，或从他们的声音中感受到了这些。

所以，因为我们国家面临困难时期，你们许多人的行为看上去比实际年龄要大。姐姐哥哥在海外工作，你们会表现得坚强，或许妈妈去值第二班，你们就要照顾年幼的弟弟妹妹。或许你们有些人年长一点的，父亲失了业，你们还要做兼职。

有太多事情要做了，很多是你们不应该做的。这让你们迷茫，不知道自己的未来会是什么样，在学校能不能取得好成绩，是不是应该把目光降低些，把理想放低些。

But I came to Masterman to tell all of you what I think you’re hearing from your principal and your superintendent, and from your parents and your teachers: Nobody gets to write your destiny but you. Your future is in your hands. Your life is what you make of it. And nothing -- absolutely nothing -- is beyond your reach, so long as you’re willing to dream big, so long as you’re willing to work hard. So long as you’re willing to stay focused on your education, there is not a single thing that any of you cannot accomplish, not a single thing. I believe that.And that last part is absolutely eential, that part about really working hard in school, because an education has never been more important than it is today. I’m sure there are going to be times in the months ahead when you’re staying up late doing your homework or cramming for a test, or you’re dragging yourself out of bed on a rainy morning and you’re thinking, oh, boy, I wish maybe it was a snow day.

But let me tell you, what you’re doing is worth it. There is nothing more important than what you’re doing right now. Nothing is going to have as great an impact on

但是，我来到马斯特曼，告诉你们一句话。我想这句话你们的校长、院长、父母以及老师都曾告诉过你们，那就是，没有人，只有你才能书写你自己的命运。未来在你自己手中，生活由自己缔造。只要志向远大，并努力为之奋斗，没有什么是不能得到的。只要你专注于学业，没有什么事不能实现的。我确信。最后这一点，在学校努力奋斗是必要的。因为教育从未像现在这样重要。我确信，几个月后会有一段时间，你们会完善熬夜写作业，为考试临时抱佛脚，或者在一个雨天的早晨把自己从被窝里拖出来，想，哦天，怎么不是下雪天？！（笑）

但是让我告诉你，你所做的一切都是值得的。你们现在要做的事情无比重要。没有什么比你的受教育程度以及你在学校的所做之事更能决定你的成功。

your succe in life as your education, how you’re doing in school.

More and more, the kinds of opportunities that are open to you are going to be determined by how far you go in school. The farther you go in school, the farther you’re going to go in life. And at a time when other countries are competing with us like never before, when students around the world in Beijing, China, or Bangalore, India, are working harder than ever, and doing better than ever, your succe in school is not just going to determine your succe, it’s going to determine America’s succe in the 21st century.So you’ve got an obligation to yourselves, and America has an obligation to you, to make sure you’re getting the best education poible. And making sure you get that kind of education is going to take all of us working hard and all of us working hand in hand.

能否能抓住机遇，越来越取决于你们在学校的努力。你们在学校的表现越好，生活中就能走得越远。当今，其他国家正与我们竞争，而且比以往任何时候都激烈。在中国北京或者印度邦加罗尔的学生比以前更加努力，而且比以前表现更好。你们在学校的成功并不只决定了自己一人的成功，还决定了美国在21世界是否能够成功。

所以，你们要承担起这样的责任和义务。同时国家也向你们承担责任和义务，那就是为你们提供最好的教育，为此我们要努力，共同奋斗。所有政府工作人员，从州长到市长，到院长，到总统，所有人都要履行职责为我们的学生做好准备，帮助他们在教室、在大学、在事业上取得成功。这就需要我们有一个杰出的校长，

Neff, and outstanding teachers like the ones you have here at Masterman -- teachers who are going above and beyond the call of duty for their students. And it’s going to take parents who are committed to your education.

像校长Neff，和优秀的老师，正如你们的马斯特曼的老师们。老师们要履行好对学生所应担负起的责任。我也希望家长负起责任。

推荐第3篇：奥巴马开学演讲

各位同学好！谢谢！谢谢每一位同学！好，现在请每一位同学就座。

今天大家都过得怎么样？（欢呼）蒂姆·斯培塞（校长，演讲主持人——译注），开始吧？（欢呼）

我现在正和弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿市的韦克菲尔德高中的同学们在一起。全美国从幼儿园到高中毕业班都在收听收看。我很高兴同大家分享这一时刻。我还要特别感谢好客的东道主，韦克菲尔德高中。来，给你们自己一个欢呼。（欢呼）

我知道，对你们当中的许多人而言，今天是开学日，你们中有一些人刚入学或刚升学，这是上新学校的第一天，所以，假如你们感到有点儿紧张，那也很正常。我想那些毕业班的同学此时此刻自我感觉一定非常好—— （欢呼）——因为再有一年他们就功德圆满、修成正果了。不过，我想，不管是哪个年级的，也许有的同学希望现在还是在过暑假，今天早晨可以在床上再赖一小会儿。

我知道这种感觉。我小时候曾家居海外，在印度尼西亚住过几年。妈妈没钱送我上美国孩子念书的学校。但她相信，接受美国教育对我至关重要。于是她决定星期一至五自己给我补课。但她又得去打工，所以只能每天凌晨 4:30 开始教我。

当然，我也不喜欢那么早就爬起来，有好多次，我竟在饭桌上睡着了。我一撅起嘴来嘟囔，妈妈就会赏我一个脸子，说：“儍孩子，你以为我教你有多好玩？”（笑声）

所以，我理解你们许多同学还需要时间来调整，来适应开学。但我今天来到这里，是为了和你们讨论一些重要的事情。我要和你们讨论你们的教育问题，以及在新的学年里，你们都应当做些什么。

我做过许多次有关教育问题的讲话。我特别强调责任。

我讲过老师们有责任鼓励和启发你们，督促你们学习。

我讲过家长们有责任确保你们能在学习的状态，按部就班，完成家庭作业，不要把很多时光都花在电视和游戏机上。

我也多次谈到过政府有责任制定严格的教学标准，支持老师和校长们的工作，扭转某些学校工作失调、学生失学的现象。

但是，即使把一切做到最好，即使有最尽职的老师、鼎力支持的家长和最优越的教学设施，如果你们不恪尽自己那一份责任，一切也都会归于徒劳——除非你们能每天按时上学、注意听讲、把师长们的谆谆告诫铭记在心、付出成功所必需的努力，否则，一切都无济于事！这就是今天我要锁定的主题：对于你们所受的教育，你们每一个人都有责任，而且责无旁贷！

我先从你们对于自己都有什么责任讲起。

你们每一个人都有自己的专长。每一个人都会有所作为和贡献。发现自己——发现自己的潜质或潜能——首先就是你们自己的责任！教育给了你们发现自己的机会。

或许你会成为一位足以著书立说的大作家和记者，但是如果不在作文课上经常练习写作，你就永远不奥巴马2010开学演讲

1//4 会意识到这一点。或许你会成为一位革新能手或发明家，让人们享用你开发的新一代手机，或救死扶伤的新药和疫苗，但如果你不上理科课、搞搞项目，就不会发现自己这方面的天赋。你将来还可能是一位市长、参议员或***官，但若不参加学生会工作或辩论团队，就很可能毫无觉察、自我埋没，让机遇擦肩而过。

我可以向你们保证，不管你将来想要做什么工作和现在生活条件怎样，你都需要接受相应的教育，来实现自己的理想。你想成为一位医生、教师或警官？还是想成为一位护士、建筑师、律师或是军人？无论你选择哪一种职业，接受良好的教育都是必由之路，别无选择。不完成学业就得不到一份称心的工作。无论做什么，你都需要接受培训，都需要勤奋工作，都需要努力学习。

你们所受到的教育不仅会决定你们自己的生活和前途，更重要的是将会决定国家的未来。美国的将来依靠你们。你们今天在校学习的内容，决定着我们国家，将来能否应对各种重大挑战。

你们需要通过理科课程的学习，获取知识和解决问题的技能，治疗癌症和艾滋病，开发新能源技术和保护人类的生存环境。你们需要从文科学习中培养洞察力和批判性思维，消灭贫困、愚昧、犯罪和歧视现象，使我们的国家更加公平和自由。你们需要在各门课程的学习中，厚积薄发，开发自己的创新能力和独门绝技，创业并组建公司，扩大就业机会，振兴我们的经济。

我们需要你们每一个人都充分开发自己的聪明才智，以帮助我们老一代人，解决我们最困难的问题。如果你不去做，如果你辍学，你的自弃，不仅是在抛弃自己，更是在抛弃你的祖国。

我也知道在校学习并非总是轻车熟道、一帆风顺。我很了解你们在生活中面临着很多困难和挑战，使你们难以潜心学业。

我深有体会。我两岁时，父亲离开了我们，我由单身母亲抚育成人。她不得不去拼命打工、奋斗，有时连帐单都无力支付，别人家的孩子有的东西，她常常买不起给我们。在我幼小的心灵里，虽说有母爱恩深似海，却仍然留有一大片空白和缺憾。多少次我怀念起父爱如山，多少次我深感孤独无助，与周边环境格格不入。

我没有象应当做的那样，在校始终全心就读，也做过不该做的事情，招到过不应有的麻烦。如果没有这些弯路，我的人生道路还可以更加顺畅。

但是，我毕竟很幸运。我得到过很多第二次机会，得以重整旗鼓，后来还有机会上了大学和法学院，去追求自己的梦想。我的夫人，我们的第一夫人米歇尔·奥巴马，也有过类似的坎坷经历。她的双亲都没进过大学，他们也很穷。但是他们都努力工作，她也很勤奋，所以她就能到我国最高学府深造。

你们当中有些同学可能更加困难，可能在你们的生活中，没有成人能给出你们所需要的那些支持。你们家庭中可能会有人失业，经济拮据。可能你们生活在不够安全的邻里环境，或受到过行为不端朋友的影响。

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但无论如何，你的生活现状——你的外表、出身、家境——都不是你忽视家庭作业或在校表现不好的借口。你们没有顶撞老师、旷课或辍学的借口。你们没有不努力学习的借口。

你将来的地位和前途不取决于现在的处境。没有人能改写你的命运，只有你才会写下你自己的历史和命运，因为这是在美国。你的将来就在你自己的把握之中。

全美国象你们一样的年轻人，都在这样地书写着自己的历史和命运。

象德州罗马市的加兹敏·佩雷斯，她刚上学时连英语都不会讲。她的双亲也都没进过大学。但她刻苦学习，成绩优异，赢得了布朗大学的奖学金，现在又进了研究生院，主修公共卫生，正在脚踏实地、一步一步地实现着自我——倍受尊敬的加兹敏·佩雷斯医学博士。

我还在想着加州洛斯阿托的***尼·舒尔兹。他从 3 岁起就得与脑癌殊死抗争，他不得不忍受着各种疗程和手术的煎熬，其中一项手术还严重损害了他的记忆力，以致他做功课要花去比别人多得多的时间——多花长达几百个小时。但他从不落人后。今年秋季他将升入大学。

此外还有来自伊州芝加哥的、我的小同乡姗特尔·斯蒂夫。作为孤儿，她多次被辗转更换托养家庭，而且社区治安不靖，但她努力争取到了在当地保健站工作的机会，还发起了一个让青少年远离犯罪团伙的公益活动。她在校品学兼优，即将荣升大学。

加兹敏、***尼、姗特尔，和你们没有什么不同。他们在生命中面对的挑战就象你们所面对的一样。他们的境遇常常比你们很多同学更糟。但是他们拒绝屈服和放弃。他们选择了担当，对他们的生命负责，对他们所受的教育负责，他们还为自己设定了奋斗目标。我期待你们也都同样去做。

因此，今天我也要号召你们每一位同学，为自己的教育规划设定奋斗目标——并且尽最大努力去做好每一件事，去实现这些目标。你们的目标可以很简单，象完成家庭作业、上课注意听讲、每天花些时间读本书。或许你们还想参加课外活动、作个社区志愿者。或许你们想保护弱小，为那些受嘲弄或挨欺负的孩子主持公道，因为你们也都和我一样，认为每个孩子都应该有一个安全的学习环境。或许你们认为应当更好地照顾自己，以便能更好地学习。这些目标都很有意义。顺便说，我也希望你们大家都多洗手，不舒服的时候就要多在家休息，预防秋冬季流感。

不管你们决定做什么，我都希望你们能负责任地、实实在在地去做。

我知道，有时候电视节目会给你们带来一种错觉，似乎无需努力也能成功或致富——以为只要饶舌、打球或作个电视真人秀明星就能一步登天。但在现实生活中，那些神话几乎无法复制。

事实上，成功更象是一项艰巨的系统工程。你不会对每门课程都情有独锺，也难以与每一位老师都合作默契，每次布置给你的家庭作业未必都能正中下怀、恰到好处。而且，并不是做每件事，你都能一步到位。所有这一切，环环相扣，都离成功太远太远。

世界上一些最成功的人往往都有过最惨痛的挫折和教训。《哈里·波特》的作者 J.K.罗琳的处女作奥巴马2010开学演讲

3//4 在最终出版之前，退稿竟达 12 次之多。“飞人”迈克尔·乔丹在高中球队时就被刷掉过。在他的职业生涯中，几百场比赛败北，几千次投篮失误。他说过，“我屡败屡战，这就是我成功的秘诀。”

成功人士之所以成功，就是因为他们懂得，不能让失败左右自己，但你必须让这些失败教会你，下一次应当怎样改进？所以，如果你闯了祸，并不说明你天生就是捣蛋鬼，而是表明你应当更严格地要求自己。如果没考好，也并非是自己笨，而是意味着你得多花些时间学习才能追上来。

人非生而知之，更何谈全能？只有努力才会学有专长。涉足新的体育项目时，你绝不会一开始就驾轻就熟；啼声初试，也不可能把歌唱得字正腔圆。都需要多练。做功课也如是。解数学题你可能得好几次才能算出正确的答案。阅读时可能得反反复复才能看懂它。一篇佳作在能拿得出手之前，肯定你还得再三润色。

勤学还要好问，不要羞于启齿。需要时就不要怕求助于人。每天我都会不耻下问和求助于人。求助并非示弱，它恰恰是自强的标志，显示你有勇气承认自己的不足。虚怀若谷，自能有容乃大，让你学到新东西，与时俱进。所以，找一位你信得过的师长——父母、祖父母、老师、教练或辅导员，求助于他们，使自己在通往目标的正轨上阔步前进。

即使是在和逆境拼搏，即使是失落彷徨、有被抛弃的感觉，你都绝不要抛弃自己。你抛弃了自己，你也就抛弃了你的祖国。

美国的历史绝不是懦夫知难而退的败绩，而是全民锐意进取、勇攀高峰的凯歌。美国人民是那样地爱国，大家无不全力以赴。

美国历史，就是 250 年前坐在你们座位的那些学生，后来革命建国的故事。年轻人，75 年前坐在你们座位上的那些学生，后来战胜了大萧条，赢得了二战。他们争取过民权，还把人类送上了月球。20 年前坐在你们座位上的那些学生，后来创建了 Google，Twitter，Facebook，改变了我们相互沟通的方式。

所以，今天我也要问你们每一位同学，你们将来要贡献什么？你们将要解决什么难题？你们将会有什么发明发现？20 年后、50 年后、100 年后，一位总统来到这里演讲，他会怎样评价你们为美国所做的一切？

为了你们能够圆满地回答上述问题，为了确保你们得到所需要的教育，你们的家庭、你们的老师和我，都在努力地做着每一件工作，修缮教室，准备教学用的书籍、设备和计算机，等等。但是，你们也要担负起你们的那些责任。所以，我期待着你们，要严肃认真地对待新学年。我期待着你们全力以赴地做好每一件事情。我期待着你们每一位同学的成功。请不要让我们失望，不要让你们的家庭失望，不要让你们的国家失望。更不要让你们自己失望。让我们都引以为荣、无比骄傲。

多谢大家，多谢每一位同学。上帝保佑你们。上帝保佑美国。谢谢。（欢呼）

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Remarks by the President in Back-to-School Speech Benjamin Banneker High School Washington, D.C. September 28, 2011

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you very much. Everybody, please have a seat. Well, Madam President, that was an outstanding introduction. (Laughter.) We are so proud of Donae for representing this school so well.

And in addition, I also want to acknowledge your outstanding principal, who has been here for 20 years -- first as a teacher, now as an outstanding principal -- Anita Berger. Please give her a big round of applause. (Applause.) I want to acknowledge, as well, Mayor Gray is here -- the mayor of Washington, D.C.is here. Please give him a big round of applause. (Applause.) And I also want to thank somebody who is going to go down in history as one of the finest Secretaries of Education that we’ve ever had -- Arne Duncan is here. (Applause.)

Now, it is great to be here at Benjamin Banneker High School, one of the best high schools not only in Washington, D.C., but one of the best high schools in the country. (Applause.) But we’ve also got students tuning in from all acro America. And so I want to welcome you all to the new school year, although I know that many of you already have been in school for a while. I know that here at Banneker, you’ve been back at school for a few weeks now. So everything is starting to settle in, just like for all your peers all acro the country. The fall sports season is underway. Musicals and marching band routines are starting to shape up, I believe. And your first big tests and projects are probably just around the corner.

I know that you’ve also got a great deal going on outside of school. Your circle of friends might be changing a little bit. Iues that used to stay confined to hallways or locker rooms are now finding their way onto Facebook and Twitter. (Laughter.) Some of your families might also be feeling the strain of the economy. As many of you know, we’re going through one of the toughest economic times that we’ve gone through in our lifetime -- in my lifetime. Your lifetime hasn’t been that long. And so, as a consequence, you might have to pick up an after-school job to help out your family, or maybe you’re babysitting for a younger sibling because mom or dad is working an extra shift.更多请访问http://www.daodoc.com/

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2010年9月14日，奥巴马来到位于宾州费城的一所中学进行了他第二次的中学演讲。

他告诉学生，在政府做好本职工作，帮助学生获得接受优质教育的机会的同时，学生仍然应该努力学习，为自己的未来担起责任。

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you! Hello! (Applause.) Thank you.Thank you.Well, hello, Philadelphia! (Applause.) And hello, Masterman.It is wonderful to see all of you.What a terrific introduction by Kelly.Give Kelly a big round of applause.(Applause.) I was saying backstage that when I was in high school, I could not have done that.(Laughter.) I would have muffed it up somehow.So we are so proud of you and everything that you’ve done.And to all the students here, I’m thrilled to be here.

We’ve got a couple introductions I want to make.First of all, you’ve got the outstanding governor of Pennsylvania, Ed Rendell, in the house.(Applause.) The mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter, is here.(Applause.) Congreman Chaka Fattah is here.(Applause.) Congrewoman Allyson Schwartz is here.(Applause.) Your own principal, Marge Neff, is here.(Applause.) The school superintendent, Arlene Ackerman, is here and doing a great job.(Applause.) And the Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, is here.(Applause.)

And I am here.(Applause.) And I am thrilled to be here.I am just so excited.I’ve heard such great things about what all of you are doing, both the students and the teachers and the staff here.

Today is about welcoming all of you, and all of America’s students, back to school, even though I know you’ve been in school for a little bit now.And I can’t think of a better place to do it than at Masterman.(Applause.) Because you are one of the best schools in Philadelphia.You are a leader in helping students succeed in the claroom.Just last week, you were recognized by a National Blue Ribbon -- as a National Blue Ribbon School because of your record of achievement.And that is a testament to everybody here –- to the students, to the parents, to the teachers, to the school leaders.It’s an example of excellence that I hope communities acro America can embrace.

Over the past few weeks, Michelle and I have been getting Sasha and Malia ready for school.And they’re excited about it.I’ll bet they had the same feelings that you do -- you’re a little sad to see the summer go, but you’re also excited about the poibilities of a new year.The poibilities of building new friendships and strengthening old ones, of joining a school club, or trying out for a team.The poibilities of growing into a better student and a better person and making not just your family proud but making yourself proud.

But I know some of you may also be a little nervous about starting a new school year.Maybe you’re making the jump from elementary to middle school, or from middle school to high school, and you’re worried about what that’s going to be like.Maybe you’re starting a new school.You’re not sure how you’ll like it, trying to figure out how you’re going to fit in.Or maybe you’re a senior, and you’re anxious about the whole college proce; about where to apply and whether you can afford to go to college.

And beyond all those concerns, I know a lot of you are also feeling the strain of some difficult times.You know what’s going on in the news and you also know what’s going on in some of your own families.You’ve read about the war in Afghanistan.You hear about the receion that we’ve been through.And sometimes maybe you’re seeing the worries in your parents’ faces or sense it in their voice.

And that’s a lot to handle.It’s more than you should have to handle.And it may make you wonder at times what your own future will look like, whether you’re going to be able to succeed in school, whether you should maybe set your sights a little lower, scale back your dreams.

And that last part is absolutely eential, that part about really working hard in school, because an education has never been more important than it is today.I’m sure there are going to be times in the months ahead when you’re staying up late doing your homework or cramming for a test, or you’re dragging yourself out of bed on a rainy morning and you’re thinking, oh, boy, I wish maybe it was a snow day.(Laughter.)

But let me tell you, what you’re doing is worth it.There is nothing more important than what you’re doing right now.Nothing is going to have as great an impact on your succe in life as your education, how you’re doing in school.

So you’ve got an obligation to yourselves, and America has an obligation to you, to make sure you’re getting the best education poible.And making sure you get that kind of education is going to take all of us working hard and all of us working hand in hand.

It takes all of us in government -- from the governor to the mayor to the superintendent to the President -- all of us doing our part to prepare our students, all of them, for succe in the claroom and in college and in a career.It’s going to take an outstanding principal, like Principal Neff, and outstanding teachers like the ones you have here at Masterman -- teachers who are going above and beyond the call of duty for their students.And it’s going to take parents who are committed to your education.

Now, that’s what we have to do for you.That’s our responsibility.That’s our job.But you’ve got a job, too.You’ve got to show up to school on time.You’ve got to pay attention in your cla.You’ve got to do your homework.You’ve got to study for exams.You’ve got to stay out of trouble.You’ve got to instill a sense of excellence in everything that you do.That kind of discipline, that kind of drive, that kind of hard work, is absolutely eential for succe.

And I can speak from experience here because unlike Kelly, I can’t say I always had this discipline.See, I can tell she was always disciplined.I wasn’t always disciplined.I wasn’t always the best student when I was younger.I made my share of mistakes.I still remember a conversation I had with my mother in high school.I was kind of a goof-off.And I was about the age of some of the folks here.And my grades were slipping.I hadn’t started my college applications.I was acting, as my mother put it, sort of casual about my future.I was doing good enough.I was smart enough that I could kind of get by.But I wasn’t really applying myself.

And so I suspect this is a conversation that will sound familiar to some students and some parents here today.She decided to sit me down and said I had to change my attitude.My attitude was what I imagine every teenager’s attitude is when your parents have a conversation with you like that.I was like, you know, I don’t need to hear all this.I’m doing okay, I’m not flunking out.

So I started to say that, and she just cut me right off.She said, you can’t just sit around waiting for luck to see you through.She said, you can get into any school you want in the country if you just put in a little bit of effort.She gave me a hard look and she said, you remember what that’s like? Effort? (Laughter.) Some of you have had that conversation.(Laughter.) And it was pretty jolting hearing my mother say that.

But eventually her words had the intended effect, because I got serious about my studies.And I started to make an effort in everything that I did.And I began to see my grades and my prospects improve.

And I know that if hard work could make the difference for me, then it can make a difference for all of you.And I know that there may be some people who are skeptical about that.Sometimes you may wonder if some people just aren’t better at certain things.You know, well, I’m not good at math or I’m just not really interested in my science claes.

And it is true that we each have our own gifts, we each have our own talents that we have to discover and nurture.Not everybody is going to catch on in certain subjects as easily as others.

But just because you’re not the best at something today doesn’t mean you can’t be tomorrow.Even if you don’t think of yourself as a math person or a science person, you can still excel in those subjects if you’re willing to make the effort.And you may find out you have talents you never dreamed of.

Because one of the things I’ve discovered is excelling -- whether it’s in school or in life -- isn’t mainly about being smarter than everybody else.That’s not really the secret to succe.It’s about working harder than everybody else.So don’t avoid new challenges -- seek them out, step out of your comfort zone, don’t be afraid to ask for help.Your teachers and family are there to guide you.They want to know if you’re not catching on to something because they know that if you keep on working at it, you’re going to catch on.

Don’t feel discouraged; don’t give up if you don’t succeed at something the first time.Try again, and learn from your mistakes.Don’t feel threatened if your friends are doing well; be proud of them, and see what leons you can draw from what they’re doing right.

Now, I’m sort of preaching to the choir here because I know that’s the kind of culture of excellence that you promote at Masterman.But I’m not just speaking to all of you, I’m speaking to kids all acro the country.And I want them to all here that same meage: That’s the kind of excellence we’ve got to promote in all of America’s schools.

That’s one of the reasons why I’m announcing our second Commencement Challenge.Some of you may have heard of this.If your school is the winner, if you show us how teachers and students and parents are all working together to prepare your kids and your school for college and a career, if you show us how you’re giving back to your community and your country, then I will congratulate you in person by speaking at your commencement.

Last year I was in Michigan at Kalamazoo and had just a wonderful time.Although I got to admit, their graduating cla was about 700 kids and my hands were really sore at the end of it because I was shaking all of them.(Laughter.)

But the truth is, an education is about more than getting into a good college.It’s about more than getting a good job when you graduate.It’s about giving each and every one of us the chance to fulfill our promise, and to be the best version of ourselves we can be.And part of that means treating others the way we want to be treated -- with kindne and respect.So that’s something else that I want to communicate to students not just here at Masterman but all acro the country.

Sometimes kids can be mean to other kids.Let’s face it.We don’t always treat each other with respect and kindne.That’s true for adults as well, by the way.

And sometimes that’s especially true in middle school or high school, because being a teenager isn’t easy.It’s a time when you’re wrestling with a lot of things.When I was in my teens, I was wrestling with all sorts of questions about who I was.I had a white mother and a black father, and my father wasn’t around; he had left when I was two.And so there were all kinds of iues that I was dealing with.Some of you may be working through your own questions right now and coming to terms with what makes you different.

And I know that figuring out all of that can be even more difficult when you’ve got bullies in a cla who try to use those differences to pick on you or poke fun at you, to make you feel bad about yourself.

And in some places, the problem is even more serious.There are neighborhoods in my hometown of Chicago, and there are neighborhoods right here in Philadelphia where kids are doing each other serious harm.

So, what I want to say to every kid, every young person -- what I want all of you -- if you take away one thing from my speech, I want you to take away the notion that life is precious, and part of what makes it so wonderful is its diversity, that all of us are different.And we shouldn’t be embarraed by the things that make us different.We should be proud of them, because it’s the thing that makes us different that makes us who we are, that makes us unique.And the strength and character of this country has always come from our ability to recognize -- no matter who we are, no matter where we come from, no matter what we look like, no matter what abilities we have -- to recognize ourselves in each other.

I was reminded of that idea the other day when I read a letter from Tamerria Robinson.She’s a 12-year-old girl in Georgia.And she told me about how hard she works and about all the community service she does with her brother.And she wrote, “I try to achieve my dreams and help others do the same.” “That,” she said, “is how the world should work.” That’s a pretty good motto.I work hard to achieve my goals and then I try to help others to achieve their goals.

And I agree with Tamerria.That’s how the world should work.But it’s only going to work that way if all of you get in good habits while you’re in school.So, yes, each of us need to work hard.We all have to take responsibilities for our own education.We need to take responsibility for our own lives.But what makes us who we are is that here, in this country, in the United States of America, we don’t just reach for our own dreams, we try to help others do the same.This is a country that gives all its daughters and all of its sons a fair chance, a chance to make the most of their lives and fulfill their God-given potential.

And I’m absolutely confident that if all of our students -- here at Masterman and acro this country -- keep doing their part, if you guys work hard and you’re focused on your education, you keep fighting for your dreams and then you help each other reach each other’s dreams, then you’re not only going to succeed this year, you’re going to succeed for the rest of your lives.And that means America will succeed in the 21st century.

So my main meage to all of you here today: I couldn’t be prouder of you.Keep it up.All of you I know are going to do great things in the future.And maybe some time in the 21st century, it’s going to be one of you that’s standing up here speaking to a group of kids as President of the United States.

Thank you.God ble you, and God ble the United States of America.Thank you.(Applause.)

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推荐第6篇：奥巴马开学演讲

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Pre Secretary

___________________________________________________________________________

For Immediate ReleaseSeptember 8, 2009

REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT

IN A NATIONAL ADDRESS TO AMERICA\'S SCHOOLCHILDREN

Wakefield High School

Arlington, Virginia

12:06 P.M.EDT

THE PRESIDENT: 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 acro 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.)

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 discu 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 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.

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 unle all of you fulfill your responsibilities, unle you show up to those schools, unle you pay attention to those teachers, unle you listen to your parents and grandparents 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 for your education.

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 cla paper that\'s aigned 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 cla.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 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.

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 homelene, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free.You\'ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your claes 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 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 mied having a father in my life.There were times when I was lonely and I felt like I didn\'t fit in.

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 preuring 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 cla, 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 acro America.

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.

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 cla, 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.

The truth is, being succeful is hard.You won\'t love every subject that you study.You won\'t click with every teacher that you have.Not every homework aignment will seem completely relevant to your life right at this minute.And you won\'t necearily succeed at everything the first time you try.

That\'s okay.Some of the most succeful 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 mied 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.\"

No one\'s born being good at all 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.The same principle applies to your schoolwork.You might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right.You might have to read something a few times before you understand it.You definitely have to do a few drafts of a paper before it\'s good enough to hand in.

something, and that then allows you to learn something new.So find an adult that you trust -- a parent, a grandparent or teacher, a coach or a counselor -- 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, 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 le 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 they founded this nation.Young people.Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depreion 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 and Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other.

Now, 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 clarooms and get you the books and the equipment and the computers you need to learn.But you\'ve got to do your part, too.So I expect all of 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.Don\'t let your family down or your country down.Most of all, don\'t let yourself down.Make us all proud.

Thank you very much, everybody.God ble you.God ble America.Thank you.(Applause.)

END

12:22 P.M.EDT

推荐第7篇：奥巴马开学演讲

引导语：我们为什么要上学？这个问题的答案可能五花八门。有人说是为了以后更轻松的赚钱，有人说是为了有个更好的将来，有人说是为了摆脱现在的窘境，甚至有人说仅仅是为了将来有个饭碗，有个好家庭。当然你也可以说是为了报效祖国！但是，我想还是有很多人对这个问题的理解还是很模糊的。今天，我们给大家推荐一个视频，是美国总统奥巴马在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿高中面向全美中小学生发表的电视开学演讲，他鼓励学生不畏逆境、发奋学习。看完后，希望能对你有所帮助！

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 acro 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.)

大家好！谢谢你们。谢谢你们。谢谢你们大家。好，大家请就坐。你们今天都好吗？（掌声）蒂姆•斯派塞（Tim Spicer）好吗？（掌声）我现在与弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿郡韦克菲尔德高中的学生们在一起。美国各地从小学预备班到中学12年级的学生正在收听收看。我很高兴大家今天都能参与。我还要感谢韦克菲尔德高中出色的组织安排。请为你们自己热烈鼓掌。（掌声）

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 -- (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.

我知道，今天是你们很多人开学的日子。对于进入小学预备班、初中或高中的学生，今天是你们来到新学校的第一天，心里可能有点紧张，这是可以理解的。我能想象有些毕业班学生现在感觉很不错——（掌声）——还有一年就毕业了。不论在哪个年级，你们有些人可能希望暑假更长一点，今天早上还能多睡一小会儿。

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 leons 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.

我了解这种感觉。我小时候，我们家生活在海外。我在印度尼西亚住了几年。我妈妈没有钱送我上其他美国孩子上的学校，但她认为必须让我接受美式教育。因此，她决定从周一到周五自己给我补课。不过她还要上班，所以只能在清晨四点半给我上课。 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.)

你们可以想见，我不太情愿那么早起床。有很多次，我趴在餐桌上就睡着了。但每当我抱怨的时候，我妈妈都会那样地看我一眼，然后说：“小子，这对我也并不轻松。”（笑声）

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 discu 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.

我知道你们有些人还在适应开学后的生活。但我今天来到这里是因为有重要的事情要和你们说。我来这里是要和你们谈谈你们的教育问题，以及在这个新学年对你们所有人的期望。

Now, I’ve given a lot of speeches about education.And I’ve talked about responsibility a lot.

我做过很多次有关教育问题的演讲。我多次谈到过责任问题。

I’ve talked about teachers’ responsibility for inspiring students and pushing you to learn.

我谈到过教师激励学生并督促他们学习的责任。

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.

我谈到过家长的责任，要确保你们走正路，完成家庭作业，不要整天坐在电视前或玩Xbox游戏。

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.

我多次谈到过政府的责任，要制定高标准，支持教师和校长的工作，彻底改善不能为学生提供应有机会的、教育质量差的学校。

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 unle all of you fulfill your responsibilities, unle you show up to those schools, unle you pay attention to those teachers, unle you listen to your parents and grandparents 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 for your education.

然而，即使我们拥有最敬业的教师，最尽力的家长和全世界最好的学校——如果你们大家不履行你们的责任，不到校上课，不专心听讲，不听家长、祖父祖母和其他大人的话，不付出取得成功所必须的勤奋努力，那么这一切都毫无用处，都无关紧要。这就是我今天讲话的重点：你们每个人对自己的教育应尽的责任。

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.

我首先要讲讲你们对自己应尽的责任。你们每个人都有自己的长处。你们每个人都能做出自己的贡献。你们对自己应尽的责任是发现自己的能力所在。而教育能够提供这样的机会。

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 cla paper that’s aigned 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 cla.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.

你或许能成为一名出色的作家——甚至可能写书或在报纸上发表文章——但你可能要在完成那篇英文课的作文后才会发现自己的才华。你或许能成为一名创新者或发明家——甚至可能设计出新一代iPhone或研制出新型药物或疫苗——但你可能要在完成科学课的实验后才会发现自己的才华。你或许能成为一名市长或参议员或最高法院的大法官——但你可能要在参加学生会的工作或辩论队后才会发现自己的才华。

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 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.

不论你的生活志向是什么，我敢肯定你必须上学读书才能实现它。你想当医生、教师或警官吗？你想当护士、建筑师、律师或军人吗？你必须接受良好的教育，才能从事上述任何一种职业。你不能指望辍学后能碰上个好工作。你必须接受培训，为之努力，为之学习。

And this isn’t just important for your own life and your own future.What you make of your education will decide nothing le 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.

这并非只对你个人的人生和未来意义重大。可以毫不夸大地说，教育给你带来的益处将决定这个国家的未来。美国的未来取决于你们。你们今日在校学习的知识将决定我们作为一个国家是否能够迎接我们未来所面临的最严峻挑战。

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 homelene, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free.You’ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your claes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy.

你们将需要利用你们通过自然科学和数学课程所学到的知识和解决问题的能力来治愈癌症、艾滋病及其他疾病，开发新的能源技术和保护我们的环境。你们将需要利用你们在历史学和社会学课堂上所获得的知识和独立思考能力来抗击贫困和解决无家可归问题，打击犯罪和消除歧视，使我们的国家更公平、更自由。你们将需要利用你们在所有课堂上培养的创造力和智慧来创办新公司，增加就业机会，振兴我们的经济。

We 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 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.

我们需要你们每个人发挥你们的聪明才智和技能，以便帮助老一辈人解决我们面临的最棘手问题。如果你们不这样做，如果你们辍学，你们不仅仅是自暴自弃，也是抛弃自己的国家。

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.

我自然知道要做到学业优秀并非总是易事。我知道你们许多人在生活中面临挑战，难以集中精力从事学业。

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 mied having a father in my life.There were times when I was lonely and I felt like I didn’t fit in.

我明白这一点。我有亲身感受。两岁时，我父亲离家而去，我是由一位单亲母亲抚养成人的，母亲不得不工作，并时常为支付生活费用而苦苦挣扎，但有时仍无法为我们提供其他孩子享有的东西。有时，我渴望生活中能有一位父亲。有时我感到孤独，感到自己不适应社会。 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.

我并非总是像我应该做到的那样专心学习，我也曾做过我如今不能引以为豪的一些事情，我曾惹过不应该惹的麻烦。我的人生原本会轻易陷入更糟糕的境地。

但是，我当年际遇不错。我有过许多第二次机会，我有幸能上大学，上法学院，追求自己的理想。我的妻子，我们的第一夫人米歇尔•奥巴马，也有着类似的经历。她的父母都未曾上过大学，家里很穷。但他们非常勤奋，她也是如此，因此她得以进入一些美国最好的学校。

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 preuring you to do things you know aren’t right.

你们中有一些人可能没有那些有利条件。或许你们生活中没有成年人为你们提供你们所需要的支持。或许你们家中有人失业，经济非常拮据。或许你们生活在使你们感觉不安全的社区，或有朋友逼迫你们去做你们知道不对的事情。

编后语：我们上学是为了什么？为了回报社会，这大了点！为了使自己、父母生活的更好，这更是质朴的！但不论为了什么，我们都需要树立一个明确的目标，并为之努力奋斗。学习不为了什么那是虚伪的。学习带有目的性更不是可耻的！相反，我们有了目标，才有动力！才能更好的学到知识，从而改变自己！

推荐第8篇：奥巴马开学演讲观后感

英文观后感-145词

I normally like to watch people giving presentations which are usually inspiring, encoloring and motivating as well.And I have watched a lots, of which I love Obama\'s the most.With the most recent presentation he gave at the school opening.

As usual, the speech was fascinating.He not only gave his perspective on schooling but also to life in general.As the first African black present in history, he spoke from his experiences.It isn\'t easy to make any achievement, but it\'s still achievable so we should hold on our dreams if we have ones.Unlike other speakers, he usually draws people\'s attention to the bigger picture in life.

Even though, we don\'t know what future holds for us, we should still try our best to persue the life we truly want.I feel I am better of because of his inspiring speech.

推荐第9篇：《奥巴马开学演讲》观后感

《奥巴马开学演讲》观后感

开学了，第一节语文课老师给我们观看了奥巴马的开学演讲，这段视频虽然很短，但却令我受益匪浅！

奥巴马的演讲跟其他人的不一样，他很真实，就像是一位父亲正在教育不想上学的孩子。

奥巴马告诉我们学习不是一件轻松的事情。他以自己为例子，叙述了他小时候，他妈每天早上为他补课的事。奥巴马同样告诉了我们，学习得靠自己，因为就算你有了最敬业的老师，最优秀的学校和最尽力的家长，如果你自己不付出成功所必需的努力，这一切都会毫无意义。

他也告诉了我们学习的意义：学习可以帮助我们找到自己的才能。如果你不接受培训，你将不可能找到一份好工作，更不可能会对国家做出贡献！

他告诉我们总会有一些因素扰乱你的学习，他也举了许多例子：可能在你们的生活中，没有成人能给出你们所需要的那些支持。你们家庭中可能会有人失业，经济拮据。可能你们生活在不够安全的邻里环境，或受到过行为不端朋友的影响。但是这些都不是你逃避学习的借口。你需要给自己定一个目标，可以很简单，但你一定要坚持。奥巴马举了许多人的例子，例如：贾斯敏·佩雷兹、安多尼·舒尔兹、香特尔·史蒂夫、迈克尔乔丹。成功不是一件简单的事情，但没有关系，失败并不是意味着你不行，而是说明你离成功更近了一步。面对失败，你不应该放弃自己，而是应该从中吸取经验，从而在下一次做出改变。

奥巴马的这次开学演讲不仅坚定了我的决心，更是教会了我不少读书的方法和心得。这使我想起了拿破仑曾说过的一句话：“我成功是因为我有决心，从不踌躇。”

上海市鞍山实验中学初一:高辰良

推荐第10篇：美国总统奥巴马开学演讲

美国总统奥巴马开学演讲

About responsibility 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.

About neceity of education 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 cla paper that\'s aigned 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 cla.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.

About being succeful

Never give up

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 weakne, it\'s a sign of strength because it shows you have the courage to admit when you don\'t know something, and that then allows you to learn something new.So find an adult that you trust -- a parent, a grandparent or teacher, a coach or a counselor -- and ask them to help you stay on track to meet your goals.

第11篇：奥巴马开学演讲英文版

THE PRESIDENT 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 acro 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.) 弗吉尼亚州，阿林顿市，2009年9月8日

嗨，大家好！你们今天过得怎么样？我现在和弗吉尼亚州阿林顿郡韦克菲尔德高中的学生们在一起，全国各地也有从幼儿园到高三的众多学生们通过电视关注这里，我很高兴你们能共同分享这一时刻。 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 -- (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.我知道，对你们中的许多人来说，今天是开学的第一天，你们中的有一些刚刚进入幼儿园或升上初高中，对你们来说，这是在新学校的第一天，因此，假如你们感到有些紧张，那也是很正常的。我想也会有许多毕业班的学生们正自信满满地准备最后一年的冲刺。不过，我想无论你有多大、在读哪个年级，许多人都打心底里希望现在还在放暑假，以及今天不用那么早起床。

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 leons 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.我可以理解这份心情。小时候，我们家在印度尼西亚住过几年，而我妈妈没钱送我去其他美国孩子们上学的地方去读书，因此她决定自己给我上课——时间是每周一到周五的凌晨4点半。

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 discu 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 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 unle all of you fulfill your responsibilities, unle you show up to those schools, unle you pay attention to those teachers, unle you listen to your parents and grandparents 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 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 cla paper that\'s aigned 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 cla.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 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 le 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.

第12篇：奥巴马开学演讲观后感

Obama,when he made the speech ,started with a humour tongune.He just like a lovely father,tell his children, “I know that feeling.I know that some of you are still adjusting to being back at school.”Meanwhile,he ,as a president,teach student parent”s responsibility,teacher”s responsibility,government”s responsibility and student”s their own duty.Because they 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 unle all of you fulfill your responsibilities, unle you show up to those schools, unle you pay attention to those teachers, unle you listen to your parents and grandparents and other adults and put in the hard work it takes to succeed.So every single of us should hold on rather than give up.There is no excuse for not trying.We should take responsibility for our lives, for our education, and set goals for ourselves.Each of us try to set our own goals for our education -- and do everything you can to meet them.I love Michael Jordan and his saying \"I have failed over and over and over again in my life.And that\'s why I succeed.\"May be we can face failure and do not know how to solve it.But,we can not be beated.These people succeeded because they understood that you can\'t let your failures define you -- you have to let your failures teach you.So don\'t ever give up on yourself.Your future do not depend on your good or bad life.None will write a bright future for you .That is,you control you own faith .What we have to do is putting our best effort into everything we do..Don\'t let our family down or our country down.Most of all, don\'t let ourself down.Make us all proud.No mater what problem you met ,you should think someone who suffered more than you.Believe the efforts you put for your goals,because no one can succeed easily!

第13篇：奥巴马开学演讲全文

青春献礼

以下是美国奥巴马总统2009年9月8日在美国美国阿林顿中学开学典礼上的演讲内容，其中许多句子发人深省。谨以此文献给所有会员及会干以及所有在校大学生。这场演讲虽然是做给美国学生的，但对照我们自己，想想我们的责任与梦想是什么？我们为什么而学习，我们可以学到什么？我们又真的学到了什么？我们又该怎样学习？思考的时间到了，同学们，花片刻的时间仔细读一读这篇文章吧。空虚和寂寞不应是青春的主旋律。诚然，在大学，我们需要完成从无忧无虑的孩子到社会成员的角色蜕变，一夜长大的痛苦是不言而喻的，但这决不是自我放逐浑浑噩噩的借口，我们长大了，我们应该并且能够承担起属于自己的责任。就像奥巴马对所有美国学子所说的“Make us all proud”.是的，我们可以做到的。最后祝各位莘莘学子身体健康，学有所成。You can do it!

We Are What We Learn

Hello, everybody! Thank you.Thank you.Thank you, everybody. All right, everybody go ahead and have a seat.How is everybody doing today? How about Tim Spicer? I am here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia.And we\'ve got students tuning in from all acro 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.

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 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 leons 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.\"

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 discu 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 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 unle all of you fulfill your responsibilities, unle you show up to those schools, unle you pay attention to those teachers, unle you listen to your parents and grandparents 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 for your education.

1 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 cla paper that\'s aigned 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 cla.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 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 le 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 homelene, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free.You\'ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your claes 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 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 mied 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 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 preuring 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 cla, or dropping out of school.There is no excuse for not trying.

2 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 acro America. 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 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 cla, 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 succeful without any hard work -- that your ticket to succe is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star.Chances are you\'re not going to be any of those things. The truth is, being succeful is hard.You won\'t love every subject that you study.You won\'t click with every teacher that you have.Not every homework aignment will seem completely relevant to your life right at this minute.And you won\'t necearily succeed at everything the first time you try. That\'s okay.Some of the most succeful 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 mied 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 doesn\'t mean you\'re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying. No one\'s born being good at all things.You become good at things through hard work.You\'re not a

3 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.The same principle applies to your schoolwork.You might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right.You might have to read something a few times before you understand it.You definitely have to 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 weakne, it\'s a sign of strength because it shows you have the courage to admit when you don\'t know something, and that then allows you to learn something new.So find an adult that you trust -- a parent, a grandparent or teacher, a coach or a counselor -- 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, 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 le 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 they founded this nation.Young people.Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depreion 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 and Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other. So today, I want to ask all of 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 20 or 50 or 100 years say about what all of you did for this country? Now, 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 clarooms and get you the books and the equipment and the computers you need to learn.But you\'ve got to do your part, too.So I expect all of 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.Don\'t let your family down or your country down.Most of all, don\'t let yourself down.Make us all proud. Thank you very much, everybody.God ble you.God ble America.Thank you.

责任与梦想

嗨，大家好！你们今天过得怎么样？我现在和弗吉尼亚州阿林顿郡韦克菲尔德高中的学生们在一起，全国各地也有从幼儿园到高三的众多学生们通过电视关注这里，我很高兴你们能共同分享这一时刻。

我知道，对你们中的许多人来说，今天是开学的第一天，你们中的有一些刚刚进入幼儿园或升上初高中，对你们来说，这是在新学校的第一天，因此，假如你们感到有些紧张，那也是很正常的。我想也会有许多毕业班的学生们正自信满满地准备最后一年的冲刺。不过，我想无论你有多大、在读哪个年级，许多人都打心底里希望现在还在放暑假，以及今天不用那么早起床。

我可以理解这份心情。小时候，我们家在印度尼西亚住过几年，而我妈妈没钱送我去其他美国孩子们上学的地方去读书，因此她决定自己给我上课——时间是每周一到周五的凌晨4点半。

显然，我不怎么喜欢那么早就爬起来，很多时候，我就这么在厨房的桌子前睡着了。每当我埋怨的时候，我妈总会用同一副表情看着我说：“小鬼，你以为教你我就很轻松？”

所以，我可以理解你们中的许多人对于开学还需要时间来调整和适应，但今天我站在这里，是为了和你们谈一些重要的事情。我要和你们谈一谈你们每个人的教育，以及在新的学年里，你们应当做些什么。

我做过许多关于教育的讲话，也常常用到“责任”这个词。

4 我谈到过教师们有责任激励和启迪你们，督促你们学习。

我谈到过家长们有责任看管你们认真学习、完成作业，不要成天只会看电视或打游戏机。

我也很多次谈到过政府有责任设定高标准严要求、协助老师和校长们的工作，改变在有些学校里学生得不到应有的学习机会的现状。

但哪怕这一切都达到最好，哪怕我们有最尽职的教师、最好的家长、和最优秀的学校，假如你们不去履行自己的责任的话，那么这一切努力都会白费。——除非你每天准时去上学、除非你认真地听老师讲课、除非你把父母、长辈和其他大人们说的话放在心上、除非你肯付出成功所必需的努力，否则这一切都会失去意义。

而这就是我今天讲话的主题：对于自己的教育，你们中每一个人的责任。首先，我想谈谈你们对于自己有什么责任。

你们中的每一个人都会有自己擅长的东西，每一个人都是有用之材，而发现自己的才能是什么，就是你们要对自己担起的责任。教育给你们提供了发现自己才能的机会。

或许你能写出优美的文字——甚至有一天能让那些文字出现在书籍和报刊上——但假如不在英语课上经常练习写作，你不会发现自己有这样的天赋；或许你能成为一个发明家、创造家——甚至设计出像今天的iPhone一样流行的产品，或研制出新的药物与疫苗——但假如不在自然科学课程上做上几次实验，你不会知道自己有这样的天赋；或许你能成为一名议员或最高法院法官，但假如你不去加入什么学生会或参加几次辩论赛，你也不会发现自己的才能。

而且，我可以向你保证，不管你将来想要做什么，你都需要相应的教育。——你想当名医生、当名教师或当名警官？你想成为护士、成为建筑设计师、律师或军人？无论你选择哪一种职业，良好的教育都必不可少，这世上不存在不把书念完就能拿到好工作的美梦，任何工作，都需要你的汗水、训练与学习。

不仅仅对于你们个人的未来有重要意义，你们的教育如何也会对这个国家、乃至世界的未来产生重要影响。今天你们在学校中学习的内容，将会决定我们整个国家在未来迎接重大挑战时的表现。

你们需要在数理科学课程上学习的知识和技能，去治疗癌症、艾滋那样的疾病，和解决我们面临的能源问题与环境问题；你们需要在历史社科课程上培养出的观察力与判断力，来减轻和消除无家可归与贫困、犯罪问题和各种歧视，让这个国家变得更加公平和自由；你们需要在各类课程中逐渐累积和发展出来的创新意识和思维，去创业和建立新的公司与企业，来制造就业机会和推动经济的增长。

我们需要你们中的每一个人都培养和发展自己的天赋、技能和才智，来解决我们所面对的最困难的问题。假如你不这么做——假如你放弃学习——那么你不仅是放弃了自己，也是放弃了你的国家。

当然，我明白，读好书并不总是件容易的事。我知道你们中的许多人在生活中面临着各种各样的问题，很难把精力集中在专心读书之上。

我知道你们的感受。我父亲在我两岁时就离开了家庭，是母亲一人将我们拉扯大，有时她付不起帐单，有时我们得不到其他孩子们都有的东西，有时我会想，假如父亲在该多好，有时我会感到孤独无助，与周围的环境格格不入。

因此我并不总是能专心学习，我做过许多自己觉得丢脸的事情，也惹出过许多不该惹的麻烦，我的生活岌岌可危，随时可能急转直下。

但我很幸运。我在许多事上都得到了重来的机会，我得到了去大学读法学院、实现自己梦想的机会。我的妻子——现在得叫她第一夫人米歇尔?奥巴马了——也有着相似的人生故事，她的父母都没读过大学，也没有什么财产，但他们和她都辛勤工作，好让她有机会去这个国家最优秀的学校读书。

你们中有些人可能没有这些有利条件，或许你的生活中没有能为你提供帮助和支持的长辈，或许你的某个家长没有工作、经济拮据，或许你住的社区不那么安全，或许你认识一些会对你产生不良影响的朋友，等等。

但归根结底，你的生活状况——你的长相、出身、经济条件、家庭氛围——都不是疏忽学业

5 和态度恶劣的借口，这些不是你去跟老师顶嘴、逃课、或是辍学的借口，这些不是你不好好读书的借口。

你的未来，并不取决于你现在的生活有多好或多坏。没有人为你编排好你的命运，在美国，你的命运由你自己书写，你的未来由你自己掌握。

而在这片土地上的每个地方，千千万万和你一样的年轻人正是这样在书写着自己的命运。

例如德克萨斯州罗马市的贾斯敏?佩雷兹（Jazmin Perez）。刚进学校时，她根本不会说英语，她住的地方几乎没人上过大学，她的父母也没有受过高等教育，但她努力学习，取得了优异的成绩，靠奖学金进入了布朗大学，如今正在攻读公共卫生专业的博士学位。

我还想起了加利福尼亚州洛斯拉图斯市的安多尼?舒尔兹（Andoni Schultz），他从三岁起就开始与脑癌病魔做斗争，他熬过了一次次治疗与手术——其中一次影响了他的记忆，因此他得花出比常人多几百个小时的时间来完成学业，但他从不曾落下自己的功课。这个秋天，他要开始在大学读书了。

又比如在我的家乡，伊利诺斯州芝加哥市，身为孤儿的香特尔?史蒂夫（Shantell Steve）换过多次收养家庭，从小在治安很差的地区长大，但她努力争取到了在当地保健站工作的机会、发起了一个让青少年远离犯罪团伙的项目，很快，她也将以优异的成绩从中学毕业，去大学深造。

贾斯敏、安多尼和香特尔与你们并没有什么不同。和你们一样，他们也在生活中遭遇各种各样的困难与问题，但他们拒绝放弃，他们选择为自己的教育担起责任、给自己定下奋斗的目标。我希望你们中的每一个人，都能做得到这些。

因此，在今天，我号召你们每一个人都为自己的教育定下一个目标——并在之后，尽自己的一切努力去实现它。你的目标可以很简单，像是完成作业、认真听讲或每天阅读——或许你打算参加一些课外活动，或在社区做些志愿工作；或许你决定为那些因为长相或出身等等原因而受嘲弄或欺负的孩子做主、维护他们的权益，因为你和我一样，认为每个孩子都应该能有一个安全的学习环境；或许你认为该学着更好的照顾自己，来为将来的学习做准备……当然，除此之外，我希望你们都多多洗手、感到身体不舒服的时候要多在家休息，免得大家在秋冬感冒高发季节都得流感。

不管你决定做什么，我都希望你能坚持到底，希望你能真的下定决心。

我知道有些时候，电视上播放的节目会让你产生这样那样的错觉，似乎你不需要付出多大的努力就能腰缠万贯、功成名就——你会认为只要会唱rap、会打篮球或参加个什么真人秀节目就能坐享其成，但现实是，你几乎没有可能走上其中任何一条道路。

因为，成功是件难事。你不可能对要读的每门课程都兴趣盎然，你不可能和每名带课教师都相处顺利，你也不可能每次都遇上看起来和现实生活有关的作业。而且，并不是每件事，你都能在头一次尝试时获得成功。

但那没有关系。因为在这个世界上，最最成功的人们往往也经历过最多的失败。J.K.罗琳的第一本《哈利?波特》被出版商拒绝了十二次才最终出版；迈克尔?乔丹上高中时被学校的篮球队刷了下来，在他的职业生涯里，他输了几百场比赛、投失过几千次射篮，知道他是怎么说的吗？“我一生不停地失败、失败再失败，这就是我现在成功的原因。”

他们的成功，源于他们明白人不能让失败左右自己——而是要从中吸取经验。从失败中，你可以明白下一次自己可以做出怎样的改变；假如你惹了什么麻烦，那并不说明你就是个捣蛋贵，而是在提醒你，在将来要对自己有更严格的要求；假如你考了个低分，那并不说明你就比别人笨，而是在告诉你，自己得在学习上花更多的时间。

没有哪一个人一生出来就擅长做什么事情的，只有努力才能培养出技能。任何人都不是在第一次接触一项体育运动时就成为校队的代表，任何人都不是在第一次唱一首歌时就找准每一个音，一切都需要熟能生巧。对于学业也是一样，你或许要反复运算才能解出一道数学题的正确答案，你或许需要读一段文字好几遍才能理解它的意思，你或许得把论文改上好几次才能符合提交的标准。这都是很正常的。

不要害怕提问。不要不敢向他人求助。——我每天都在这么做。求助并不是软弱的表现，恰恰相反，它说明你有勇气承认自己的不足、并愿意去学习新的知识。所以，有不懂时，就向大人

6 们求助吧——找个你信得过的对象，例如父母、长辈、老师、教练或辅导员——让他们帮助你向目标前进。

你要记住，哪怕你表现不好、哪怕你失去信心、哪怕你觉得身边的人都已经放弃了你——永远不要自己放弃自己。因为当你放弃自己的时候，你也放弃了自己的国家。

美国不是一个人们遭遇困难就轻易放弃的国度，在这个国家，人们坚持到底、人们加倍努力，为了他们所热爱的国度，每一个人都尽着自己最大的努力，不会给自己留任何余地。 250年前，有一群和你们一样的学生，他们之后奋起努力、用一场革命最终造就了这个国家；75年前，有一群和你们一样的学生，他们之后战胜了大萧条、赢得了二战；就在20年前，和你们一样的学生们，他们后来创立了Google、Twitter和Facebook，改变了我们人与人之间沟通的方式。

因此，今天我想要问你们，你们会做出什么样的贡献？你们将解决什么样的难题？你们能发现什么样的事物？二

十、五十或百年之后，假如那时的美国总统也来做一次开学演讲的话，他会怎样描述你们对这个国家所做的一切？

你们的家长、你们的老师和我，每一个人都在尽最大的努力，确保你们都能得到应有的教育来回答这些问题。例如我正在努力为你们提供更安全的教室、更多的书籍、更先进的设施与计算机。但你们也要担起自己的责任。因此我要求你们在今年能够认真起来，我要求你们尽心地去做自己着手的每一件事，我要求你们每一个人都有所成就。请不要让我们失望——不要让你的家人、你的国家和你自己失望。你们要成为我们骄傲，我知道，你们一定可以做到。

谢谢大家，上帝保佑你们，上帝保佑美国。

Hope you enjoy this inspiring article, think what we should learn from it and take it into actions, guys! There’re still more helpful articles both for reading and learning in English study as well as for coping with college life that I want to share with you, I’ve put them on the blog space of our English Aociation.You can search for more information.Hard hard study, day day up! Good luck with you!

英语协会

诸葛珍

2010/12/7 7

第14篇：奥巴马开学演讲观后感

篇1：奥巴马开学演讲观后感

开学了，第一节语文课老师给我们观看了奥巴马的开学演讲，这段视频虽然很短，但却令我受益匪浅！

奥巴马的演讲跟其他人的不一样，他很真实，就像是一位父亲正在教育不想上学的孩子。

他也告诉了我们学习的意义：学习可以帮助我们找到自己的才能。如果你不接受培训，你将不可能找到一份好工作，更不可能会对国家做出贡献！

篇2：奥巴马开学演讲观后感

开学了，第一节语文课老师给我们观看了奥巴马的开学演讲，这段视频虽然很短，但却令我受益匪浅！

奥巴马的演讲跟其他人的不一样，他很真实，就像是一位父亲正在教育不想上学的孩子。

他也告诉了我们学习的意义：学习可以帮助我们找到自己的才能。如果你不接受培训，你将不可能找到一份好工作，更不可能会对国家做出贡献！

篇3：奥巴马开学演讲观后感

对于教育，我们现在的每一个人都有责任，听了《奥巴马开学演讲》后，我想谈谈我们学生对于自己有什么责任。

无论你将来想从事什么样的职业，都要通过教育才能实现自己的梦想。曾经，我想当一名消防队员，就争取听到更多的消防讲座，了解更多的消防知识。记得有一次校本课程教育中讲到消防，我整节课眼睛都不眨一下，并认真做好笔记，以便将来可以成为一名优秀的消防队员。后来，我想当一名军人，所以中央七台军事频道便加入到了我的喜爱频道之中，为我的军事知识提供了教育途径。前段时间日本侵犯我国领土钓鱼岛，我每天密切关注新闻，了解最新动态，虽然现在我能做的非常少，但是，少年强则国强，我会努力学习，期盼有朝一日能尽我所能，保卫祖国！

有些山区里的孩子没有教室，没有桌椅，没有教材，甚至没有老师，但是他们仍然渴望读书；有些贫困的孩子没有书包，没有文具，没有课本，甚至没有入学资格，可是他们依然期盼上学。现在政府给我们提供了良好的读书环境，所以我们必须珍惜现在有的一切，没有什么是我们不好好读书的借口。我将多阅读、勤写作，学好语文；我将仔细计算、多做习题，学好数学；我将天天朗读，日日背诵，学好英语；我将认真听课，学好其他一切课程。

没有哪一个人是生下来就什么都会的，只有努力，才能培养出技能。就像我打篮球，刚开始的时候，我不会运球，不会传球，篮也投不准，甚至连基本规则都不知道，经常犯规，有时还会遭到队友的埋怨。现在，经过一段时间的艰苦训练，我不仅了解了比赛规则，投篮命中率增高，而且还熟练地掌握了三步上篮的技巧。对于学业也是一样，我们或许要反复运算才能解出一道数学题的正确答案，我们或许需要读一段文字好几遍才能理解它的意思，我们或许得把作文改上好几次才能符合提交的标准。这都是很正常的。所以，我要尽最大的努力，向着自己的目标前进。

无论将来做什么，我都会下定决心，坚持到底，永不放弃！因为，我的命运由自己书写，我的未来由自己掌控！

第15篇：《奥巴马开学演讲》观后感

《奥巴马开学演讲》观后感

视频全场不超过20分钟，模糊的画面，不及时的字幕让我的眼睛有些酸涩。回头看了一眼班上的同学们，都是认真、专注的表情。美国总统奥巴马的每一字每一句都值得我们思考，都值得我们听从。

他说，他很能理解我们的心情，那种希望现在还在放暑假，早上可以睡懒觉的心情。

几乎所有的家长都认为只有受教育才会有好的前途。而事实上也正是如此。我们并未听说过有多少多少人是文盲而成就了一番事业的，即使有，也是少数。我们成为这个“少数”的可能性微乎其微。虽然学习受教育并不是唯一的出路，但是有句老话说得好：“活到老，学到老”。

我们每个人都有责任。老师有责任激励我们，督促我们学习；家长有责任确保我们走正道，完成家庭作业，不要成天只会看电视或打游戏。我们也有自己的责任，认真学习、孝敬长辈等都是我们的责任。妈妈常常跟我说，你现在最最重要的任务就是学习，这里的任务可以与责任划等号。大家都学过政治，有义务就有责任。我们必须对自己的教育尽到自己的责任。

我们都有长处，我们每个人都是有用之材，我们需要给自己信心发现自身的优点，而受教育可以帮助我们找到。

我们永远不可以觉得学习很苦、很累。像我们现在这样，坐在窗明几净的教室里，能够全心全意的学自己的习，我们觉得这很正常，甚至觉得这是理所当然的，我们不知道，当我们在抱怨的时候，有多少孩子奢望我们的生活…… 我们始终记得要知恩、惜福。

没有人是十全十美的。老师也是人，他们不是神。我们没有理由因为老师的一点点错误而全盘否定他的所有。老师不是人民币，不可能做到人人喜欢，可是老师在我们的学习生活中影响太大，所以不管怎么不喜欢一位老师，都要克服，找一个喜欢他的理由。

学习需要确立一个目标。不需要很远大，可以很简单，像是完成作业、认真听讲或是每天阅读。这样的目标虽然很小，但日积月累下来，进步会是大家有目共睹的。

取得成功不是多么容易的事。乔丹说过，我一生不停的失败、失败再失败，这就是我成功的原因。一次失败真的不能说明什么，它唯一能说明的就是这一次的做法中有瑕疵，不够完美。我们不能让失败左右自己，而是要从中汲取经验。只有在失败中我们才能明白下一次要做出怎样的改变。什么事情只有反复去做，成功的可能性才越大。

我一直记得高一的一个同学说过的一句话，她说：当你想要放弃的时候，就想想当初为什么要努力来到这里。自己选择的路，不管有多苦，咬着牙走完。即使所有人都放弃了你，你也不可以自暴自弃。如果自己都放弃了自己，那就真的没救了，万劫不复。

奥巴马讲的许多道理我们都懂。有时我们只是不愿意将这些口号落实到行动中。如果我们口中的那些响亮的口号成为现实，我们的进步一定会让人吃惊！

高二（13）班

2012.10.5

第16篇：奥巴马开学演讲翻译

Hello everybody.Thank you.Thank you .Thank you.Everybody.All right.Everybody go and have a set.嗨，大家好。谢谢，谢谢，谢谢大家。好了，大家赶快坐下。 How is everybody doing today? How about Tim spicer? I am here with student at Wakefield high school in Arlingdon, Virginia.大家今天过得怎么样？蒂姆斯宾塞怎么样？我现在和弗吉尼亚州阿林顿郡维克菲尔德高中的同学们在一起。

We’ve got student turning from all acro America from kindergarten to12 grade.全国各地有从幼儿园到高三的众多学生通过电视关注着这里。

And I’m just so glad that all you could join us today and I want to thank Wakefield for being such an outstanding host.Give yourselves an big round of applause.我很高兴你们今天都来参加这个演讲，感谢维克菲尔德高中能够把组织工作做的这么好，请为你们自己鼓掌。

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 of the new school.今天是你们的开学第一天，对于刚进入幼儿园或者刚升入初中高中的学生来说，今天也是你们进入新学校的第一天。

So it’s understandable if you feel a little nervous.I imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right now,you are with just one more year to go.如果你觉得有一点紧张，那是正常的。我想，一些高年级的学生现在应该觉得非常开心，因为还有一年你们就要毕业了。

And no matter what grade you’re in ,some of you probably wish you are still in summer.And you could stay in bed a little bit longer this morning.不管你是哪个年级的，我想你们当中肯定有人还希望暑假还没结束，那样你们就能在今天早上多睡一小会儿。

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 enough money to send me where all America kids went to school.我了解那种感受。在我很小的时候，我们家住在国外，我曾经在印度尼西亚住过几年。那时候我母亲没有足够的钱送我去美国孩子们上的学校。

But she thought it was important for me to keep up with an America education.So she decided to teach me extra leons herself.但是她还是认为我必须要接受美国式的教育，所以她决定自己在家里教我。

Monday to Friday,but because she had to go to work ,the only time she could do it was 4: 30 in the morning.因为她要去上班，只能在工作日的凌晨四点半教我。 Now, as you might imagine, I wasn’t too happy to happy to getting up that early.And a lot of times ,I’d fall asleep right there at kitchen table.正如你们想的，我很不情愿每天那么早起床。有好多次我就直接在餐桌上睡着了。

Then whenever I complained it, my mother would just give me one of those looks and she’d say this is no picnic for me either, buster.每次我抱怨的时候，我妈就会一脸不情愿的对我说，你以为我教你很轻松吗，小鬼。

So I know that some of you are still adjusting to being back at school.But I am here today because I have something important to discu with you.我知道你们很多人还在适应回到校园的生活，但是我今天来到这里是因为我有重要的事情要和你讨论。 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.我今天要和你们谈你们的教育问题，以及新学年对你们的期望。

I’ve given a lot of speeches about education.And I’ve talked about responsibility a lot.I’ve talked about teacher’s responsibility for inspiring students and pushing you to learn.关于教育的演讲，我已经做过很多次了，我也经常谈到责任问题。我说过老师的责任是鼓励学生，激励学生学习。

I’ve talked about your parent’s responsibility for making sure you on the track and get your homework done and don’t spend every waking time hour in front of the TV or with the Xbox.家长的责任是确保你走在正道上，监督你完成家庭作业，不允许你把时间都花在电视和游戏上。

I’ve talked a lot about your government’s responsibility for setting high standards and supporting teacher’s principals and turn around schools that they aren’t working,where students aren’t getting the opportunities they deserve.政府的责任是制定高的标准协助老师和学校的工作，提高学校的工作效率，改变有些学校里学生得不到应得的教育的状况。

But at the end of the day, we have the most delicated teachers , the most supporting parents, the best school in the world.And none of it will make a difference, none of it will matter unle all of you fulfill your responsibility,unle you show up to those schools,unle you pay attention to those teachers,unle you listen to your parents and your grandparents and other adults and put in the hard work it takes to succeed.但即便是今天，我们拥有最尽职的老师，最配合的家长，最好的学校，如果你不履行自己的责任，不按时上学，不听长辈们的忠告，不努力成功，那么这一切都是白费。

第17篇：奥巴马开学演讲观后感

奥巴马开学演讲观后感

篇1：奥巴马开学演讲>观后感

开学了，第一节语文课老师给我们观看了奥巴马的开学演讲，这段视频虽然很短，但却令我受益匪浅！

奥巴马的演讲跟其他人的不一样，他很真实，就像是一位父亲正在教育不想上学的孩子。

他也告诉了我们学习的意义：学习可以帮助我们找到自己的才能。如果你不接受>培训，你将不可能找到一份好工作，更不可能会对国家做出贡献！

篇2：奥巴马开学演讲观后感

开学了，第一节语文课老师给我们观看了奥巴马的开学演讲，这段视频虽然很短，但却令我受益匪浅！

奥巴马的演讲跟其他人的不一样，他很真实，就像是一位父亲正在教育不想上学的孩子。

他也告诉了我们学习的意义：学习可以帮助我们找到自己的才能。如果你不接受培训，你将不可能找到一份好工作，更不可能会对国家做出贡献！

篇3：奥巴马开学演讲观后感

对于教育，我们现在的每一个人都有责任，听了《奥巴马开学演讲》后，我想谈谈我们学生对于自己有什么责任。

无论将来做什么，我都会下定决心，坚持到底，永不放弃！因为，我的命运由自己书写，我的未来由自己掌控！

第18篇：奥巴马开学演讲观后感

So every single ofus should hold on rather than give up.There is no excuse for not trying.We should take responsibility for our lives, for our education, and set goals for ourselves.Each of us try to set our own goals for our education -- and do everything you can to meet them.

I love Michael Jordan and his saying\"I have failed over and over and over again in my life.And that\'s why I succeed.\"May be we can face failure and do not know how to solve it.But,we can not be beated.These people succeeded because they understood that you can\'t let your failures define you -- you have to let your failures teach you.So don\'t ever give up on yourself.

Your future do not depend on your good or bad life.None will write a bright future for you .That is,you control you own faith .What we have to do is putting our best effort into everything we do..Don\'t let our family down or our country down.Most of all, don\'t let ourself down.Make us all proud.

No mater what problem you met ,you should think someone who suffered more than you.Believe theefforts you putforyour goals,becauseno one can succeedeasily!

第19篇：奥巴马开学演讲(中英文)

美国总统奥巴马9月8日开学演讲

REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT

IN A NATIONAL ADDRESS TO AMERICA\'S SCHOOLCHILDREN

Wakefield High School

Arlington, Virginia Hello, everybody! Thank you.Thank you.Thank you, everybody. 嗨，大家好！谢谢！谢谢大家！

All right, everybody go ahead and have a seat.How is everybody going today? How about Tim Spicer? 好的，大家请就座。你们今天过得怎么样？蒂姆.斯派塞好吗？

I am here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia.And we\'ve got students tuning in from all acro 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.我现在与弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿郡维克菲尔德高中的学生们在一起。全国各地也有从幼儿园到高三的众多学生们，通过电视关注这里。我很高兴你们能共同分享这一时刻。我还有感谢维克菲尔德高中出色的组织安排，请为你们热烈鼓掌。

我知道，对你们中的许多人来说，今天是开学的第一天。对于刚进入幼儿园或升上初中高中的学生，今天是你们来到新学校的第一天。因此，假如你们搞到有些紧张，那也是正常的。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 bit longer this morning.我想也会有许多毕业班的学生们正自信满满，还有一年就毕业了。不论在哪个年级，许多人打心底里希望现在还是暑假。今天早上还能多睡一小会。

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

1 kids went to school, but she thought it was important for me to keep up with an American education.

我可以理解这份心情。小时候，我们家生活中海外。我在印度尼西亚住了几年。我母亲没有钱送我上其他美国孩子上的学校。但她认为必须让我接受美式教育。

So she decided to teach me extra leons 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.因此，他决定从周一到周五自己给我补课。不过她还要上夜班。所以只能在清晨四点半给我上课。

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 discu 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.所有我能理解你们有些人还在适应开学后的生活。但几天我站在这里，是为了和你们谈一些重要的事情。我要和你们谈一谈你们每一个人的教育，以及这个新学年对你们所有人的期望。

Now, I\'ve given a lot of speeches about education.And I\'ve talked about responsibility a lot.我做过许多关于教育的讲话。也常常用到“责任”这个词。

I\'ve talked about teachers\' responsibility for inspiring students and pushing you to learn.我谈到过教师有责任激励你们，督促你们学习。

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.我谈到过家长有责任确保你们走正道、完成家庭作业，不要成天只会看电视或打游戏机。

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.我也多次谈到过政府有责任制定高标准协助老师和校长的工作，改变在有些学校学生得不到应有的学习机会的现状。 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 unle all of you fulfill your responsibilities, unle you show up to those schools,

2 unle you pay attention to those teachers, unle you listen to your parents and grandparents 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 for your education.但哪怕这一切都达到最好，哪怕我们拥有最敬业的教师，最尽力的家长和全世界最好的学校，假如你们不去履行自己的责任的话，那么这一切努力都会白费。除非你每天准时去上学，除非你认真听老师讲课，除非你把父母、长辈和其他大人们的话放在心上。除非你肯付出成功所必需的努力。否则这一切都会失去意识。而这就是我今天讲话的重点：你们每个人对自己的教育应尽的责任。

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.我首先要讲讲你们对自己应尽的责任。你们每一个都有自己的长处，你们每个人都时有用之才。你们对自己应尽的责任时发现自己的才能所在。而教育能够提供这样的机会

或许你能写出优美的文字，甚至有一天能将那些文字出现在书籍和报刊上，但假如不再英语课上经常练习写作，你不会发现自己有这样的才能。

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 cla.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.或许你能成为一名创新家或发明家。甚至可能设计出新一代iPhone，或研制出新型药物与疫苗。但假如不再自然科学课堂上做上几次试验，你不会发现自己有这样的才能。或许你能成为一名市长或参议员，或最高法院的大法官，但假如你不去加入或参加几次辩论赛，你不会发现自己有这样的才能。

And no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you\'ll need an education to do it.

不论你的生活的志向是什么，我敢肯定你都需要相应的教育。

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 cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good job.

3 You\'ve got to train for it and work for it and learn for it.你想当医生、教师或警官吗？你想当护士、建筑师、律师或军人吗？你必须接受良好的教育才能从事上述任何一种职业。你不能指望辍学后碰上个好工作。你必须接受培训，为之努力，为之学习。

And this isn\'t just important for your own life and your own future.What you make of your education will decide nothing le 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.这并非只对你个人的人生和未来意义重大。教育给你带来的益处将决定这个国家的未来。美国的未来取决于你们。今天你们在学校中的学习内容，将决定我们整个国家在未来迎接重大挑战时的表现。

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.

你们需要在数理科学课程上学习知识和技能，去治疗癌症、艾滋病那样的疾病。开发新的能源技术保护我们的环境。 You\'ll need the insights and critical-thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelene, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free.You\'ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your claes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy.你们需要历史社会科课程上活动观察的能力与判断力来抗击贫困和解决无家可归的问题打击犯罪和消除歧视，让这个国家变得更加公平和自由。你们需要在各类课程中逐渐培养创造力和智慧去创办公司，制造就业机会和推动经济增长。 We 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 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.我们需要你们每一个人都发挥天赋、技能和才智，帮助老一辈人解决我们面临的最棘手问题。如果你们不这样做，入股你们辍学，你们不仅放弃了自己，也放弃了自己的国家。

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.我当然明白读好书不是件容易的事，我知道你们中的许多人在生活中面临着各种问题。很难把精力集中在专心读书上。 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.

我明白这一点，我有亲身感受。我父亲在我两岁时就离开了家庭，是我母亲一个人将我拉扯大，母亲不得不工作并时

4 常为支付生活费而苦苦挣扎。但有时仍无法位我们提供其他孩子享有的东西。

There were times when I mied having a father in my life.There were times when I was lonely and I felt like I didn\'t fit in.有时我渴望生活中能有一位父亲。有时我也会感到孤独无助，感觉到与周围的环境格格不入。

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.我并非总是想我应该做到的那样专心学习，我做过许多自己觉得丢脸的事情，也惹出许多不该惹的麻烦。我的生活岌岌可危，随时可能急转直下。

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 worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this country.但我很幸运，在许多事情上都得到了重来的机会。我有幸能上大学，上法学院，追求自己的理想。我的妻子，我们的第一夫人马歇尔.奥巴马，也有着类似的人生故事。她的父母亲都没有读过大学，也没有什么财产，但他们都非常勤奋，她也是如此。因此她得以进入一些美国最好的学校。

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 preuring you to do things you know aren\'t right.你们中有些人可能没有那些有利条件。或许你们的生活中没有能为你提供帮助的长辈。或许你们家长中有人失业，经济非常拮据。或许你住的社区不那么安全，或许你认识一些会对你产生不良影响的朋友。

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 cla, or dropping out of school.There is no excuse for not trying.但归根结底，你的生活状况，你的长相、出身、经济条件、家庭气氛，都不是疏忽学业和态度恶劣的借口。这些不是你去跟老师顶嘴、逃课或辍学的借口。这些不是你不好好读书的借口。

Where you are right now doesn\'t have to determine where you\'ll end up.No one\'s written

5 your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own destiny.You make your own future.你们目前的状况并不是决定这你们的未来，没有人为你编排好你的命运。在美国，你的命运由你自己书写，你的未来你自己掌握。

That\'s what young people like you are doing every day, all acro America.这就是像你们这样的年轻人每天都在做的事情，全美各地都是如此。

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.假如德克萨斯州罗马市的贾斯敏.佩雷兹，她刚进学校时根本不会说英语。她父母都没有上过大学。然而，她非常勤奋，成绩优异，获得了布朗大学的奖学金。如今正攻读公共卫生专业的研究生。不久将成为贾斯敏.佩雷斯博士。 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.我还想起了加州洛斯拉图斯市的安多妮.舒尔兹。他从三岁起就开始与脑癌病魔作斗争。他熬过了一次次治疗与手术。其中一项手术曾影响他的记忆。因此他得比常人多花几百小时来完成学业。但他不曾落下自己的功课。这个秋天，他要开始在大学读书了。

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.我还想起了家乡伊利诺伊州芝加哥市的一名孤儿，香奈儿.史蒂夫。她曾寄养于多个不同的家庭，从小在治安差的地区长大。但她通过努力在一家地方医疗中心找到了工作，发起了一个让青少年远离犯罪团伙的项目。她即将以优异成绩从中学毕业去大学深造。

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 to take responsibility for their lives, for their education, and set goals for themselves.And I expect all of you to do the same.贾斯敏、安多妮和香奈儿与你们并没有什么不同。和你们一样，他们也在生活中遇到各种问题。在某些情况下，他们

6 的处境比起你们许多人更差。但他们拒绝放弃，他们决定要为自己的人生、自己的教育负起责任，给自己定下奋斗的目标。我希望你们中每一个人都能做得到这些。

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 cla, 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. 因此，我今天号召你们每一个人，为自己的教育设定目标。并尽自己的最大努力来实现这些目标。你的目标可以很简单，像是完成作业、认真听讲或每天阅读。或许你打算参加一些课外活动，或是在你的社区提供志愿服务。

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.

或许你决定挺身而出，保护那些因身份或长相而受人戏弄或欺负的孩子，原因是你和我一样认为，每个孩子都应该享有适合读书和学习的安全环境。

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.或许你决定该学着更好地照顾自己，来位将来的学习准备。除此之外，顺便提一下，我希望大家要勤洗手，感到身体不舒服的时候要多在家了休息。免得大家在秋冬感冒高发季节得流感。

But whatever you resolve to do, I want you to commit to it.I want you to really work at it.但无论你决定做什么，我都希望你能坚持到底。我希望你脚踏实地去做。

I know that sometimes you get that sense from TV that you can be rich and succeful without any hard work -- that your ticket to succe is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star.Chances are you\'re not going to be any of those things.我知道有时候你会从电视上得到这样的印象，不需要付出多大的努力就能腰缠万贯、功成名就。只要会唱rap、会打篮球或参加真人秀节目，就能坐享其成。但现实是，你几乎没有可能走上其中任何一条道路。

事实上，取得成功不是轻而易举的事情。你不可能对要读的每一门课程都兴趣盎然。你不可能和每名带课教师都相处

7 顺利。不是所有的家庭作业都与你眼前的生活完全相关。并不是每一件事，你都能在头一次尝试时获得成功。 That\'s okay.Some of the most succeful people in the world are the ones who\'ve had the most failures.

但那没关系，世界上最成功的人士中有一些时遭遇失败最多的。

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 mied 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.\" J.K.罗琳，《哈利.波特》的作者，她的《哈利.波特》第一部出版前被退稿12次。迈克尔.乔丹上高中时被校队刷了下来。在他的职业生涯里，输了几百场比赛。投失过几千次射篮，但他曾说过：“我一生不停地失败、失败再失败，这就是我成功的原因。”

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 doesn\'t mean you\'re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying.他们的成功，源于他们明白不能让失败左右自己。而是要从中吸取经验，从失败中，你能明白下一次可以做出怎样的改变。假如你惹了什么麻烦，那并不说明你就是那个捣蛋鬼。而意味着你需要更加努力去把它做对。假如你考了个低分，那不表示你比别人笨，而只表示你需要更多的时间学习。

没有一个人天生擅长做什么事情，只有努力才能培训处技能。第一次接触新的体育项目时，你不可能时一位主力队员。第一次唱一首歌曲时，你不可能唱准每一个音。

You\'ve got to practice.The same principle applies to your schoolwork.You might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right.You might have to read something a few times before you understand it.You definitely have to do a few drafts of a paper before it\'s good enough to hand in.一切都是熟能生巧的。对于学业也是一样，你或许要反复运算才能正确解释出一道数学题。你或许需要反复读一段文字才能理解它的意思。你或许得把论文修改上好几次才能符合提交的标准。

Don\'t be afraid to ask questions.Don\'t be afraid to ask for help when you need it.I do that

8 every day.Asking for help isn\'t a sign of weakne, it\'s a sign of strength because it shows you have the courage to admit when you don\'t know something, and that then allows you to learn something new.不要害怕提问，不要不敢向他人求助。我每天都在这么做。求助并不是软弱的表现，它是力量的标志，因为它表明你有勇气承认自己的不足。这样做会让你学到新的东西。

So find an adult that you trust -- a parent, a grandparent or teacher, a coach or a counselor -- and ask them to help you stay on track to meet your goals.请确定一位你信任的成年人，例如家长、祖父或老师、教练或辅导员。请他们帮助你遵循既定计划实现你的目标。 And even when you\'re struggling, even when you\'re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you, don\'t ever give up on yourself, because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country.即使当你苦苦挣扎，即使当你灰心丧气，你觉得身边的人都已近放弃了你，你永远不要放弃自己。因为当你放弃自己的时候，你也放弃了自己的国家。

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 le than their best.书写美国历史的不是在困难时刻退缩的人，而是坚持不懈、加倍努力的人。他们对国家的爱促使他们全力以赴。 It\'s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and they founded this nation.Young people.Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depreion 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 and Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other.书写美国老师的是250年前和你们一样的学生，他们之后用一场革命最终造就了这个国家。年轻人，75年前，有一群和你们一样的学生。他们之后战胜了大萧条、赢得了二战。他们为民权而奋斗并把宇航员送上了月球。就在20年前，有一群和你们一样的学生们。他们后来创立了Google、Twitter和Facebook，改变了我们之间交流沟通的方式。

So today, I want to ask all of 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 20 or 50 or 100 years say about what all of you did for this country? 因此，今天我要问问你们大家。你们会做出什么样的贡献，你们将解决什么样的难题。你们能发现什么样是事物。20年、50年或是100年后，假如那是的美国总统也来做一次开学演讲的话，他会怎样描述你们对这个国家所做的一切。

9 Now, 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 clarooms and get you the books and the equipment and the computers you need to learn. 你们的家长、你们的老师和我，正在竭尽全力确保你们都能得到应有的教育。以便回答上述问题，我正在努力为你们提供更安全的教室、更多是书籍、更先进的设施与计算机。

But you\'ve got to do your part, too.So I expect all of 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.Don\'t let your family down or your country down.Most of all, don\'t let yourself down.Make us all proud.但你们也要担负起自己的责任。因此我要求你们在今年能够认真起来。我要求你们尽心去做自己着手的每一件事。我要求你们每一个人都有所成就。请不要让我们失望，不要让你们的家人或你们的国家失望。而最重要的时，不要辜负你们自己，你们要成为我们的骄傲。

Thank you very much, everybody.God ble you.God ble America.Thank you. 非常感谢你们大家，愿天主保佑你们，愿天主保佑美国。谢谢你们。

第20篇：某年奥巴马开学演讲观后感

XX年奥巴马开学演讲观后感

“开学第一天，紧张是正常的”“还想继续过暑期的这份心情，也是可以理解的”，通过说出孩子此时心情，让孩子非常有兴趣继续听，从而引出他今天的重要事情：谈每个人的教育。下面是XX年奥巴马开学演讲观后感，欢迎阅读。 XX年奥巴马开学演讲观后感

今天观看了奥巴马在美国跟全国学生一起上开学第一课的演讲，受益匪浅。

美国乃一强国，居于世界霸主地位，但是他们任然把教育放在首位，重视教育之程度，中国是无法比拟的。今天就奥巴马的演讲谈一谈中国中学生对如何做一个学生的看法。

首先，是责任。梁启超《少年中国说》中的一段话：“今日之责任，不在他人，而全在我少年。少年智则国智，少年富则国富，少年强则国强，少年独立则国独立，少年自由则国自由，少年进步则国进步，少年胜于欧洲则国胜于欧洲，少年雄于地球则国雄于地球。”可见，少年，学生，之于一个国家之命运是何等重要。我们享受着国家政策给予的权利，但如何履行权利回报国家是中国少年必须思考的一个问题。保证国家发展是我们的责任，保证社会和谐是我们的责任，保证家庭和睦是我们的责任，保证学校不以我们为耻是我们的责任，保证教师热爱他们的岗位是我们的责任。所以，少年之责任，关系着个人，家庭，社会，国家。由此看来，作为学生，责任感，尤其重要。

其次，是勤奋。华罗庚说过：“勤能补拙是良训，一分辛苦一分才。”奥巴马因为勤奋，能够摆脱穷困的生活，成为美国历史上伟大的总统之一，他得到的不仅是美国人的尊敬，更是世界的欣赏。因为勤奋，他成功了。他的妻子，美国的第一夫人，因为勤奋，她进入了美国最好的学校。因为勤奋，她也成功了。命运掌握在自己手中，唯有内心底里要求上进，并付之以不懈努力，即勤奋，才能摆脱命运的不公，自己书写自己的人生，获得成功。

然后，是目标。如果说勤奋是个过程，是方法，那么这过程的归宿则是一个人的目标。为自己树立一个远大的目标会成为自己不懈努力之动力的的来源。作为学生，十几年如一日的枯燥学习生活会令人不经意间懒惰，迷茫甚至气馁，堕落。这些阻碍成功的因素唯一的天敌就是目标。一个学生的目标，必须正确向上，能够引起心灵的共鸣，从而在痛苦中快乐前行。

最重要的，是坚持。俗话说：“坚持就是胜利。”成功的道路不可能是坦途，它必定遍布荆棘，而我们要做的就是不断克服，不断超越。如果，在一次次困难中被打败，在挫折前退缩了，犹豫了，那就会离成功越来越远。所以，贵在坚持。作为青少年学生，我们有着无穷的精力与活力。我们不怕失败但怕气馁，不怕困难但怕放弃，不怕挫折但怕退缩。所以，在枯燥的学习生活中，谁能坚持到底谁就是最后的赢家，谁就能获得最终的胜利!

作为学生，我们还应该树立正确的观念，要明白，成功绝不可能一蹴而就，经历过失败才能获得经验，做出改变，从而调整自己，我相信只有经历过失败的人才能真正获得成功。

当然，身体才是革命的本钱，只有又来一个好的身体，才能以全部精力投入学习!

总而言之，成功不是偶然，它需要汗水的灌溉。作为一个学生，我们只有做到拥有一颗责任心，勤奋地向着目标坚持不懈地努力，才对得起“学生”这个称号。

XX年奥巴马开学演讲观后感

班会课老师给我们观看了奥巴马的开学演讲，这段视频虽然很短，但却令我受益匪浅!

奥巴马的演讲跟其他人的不一样，他很真实，就像是一位父亲正在教育不想上学的孩子。

他也告诉了我们学习的意义：学习可以帮助我们找到自己的才能。如果你不接受培训，你将不可能找到一份好工作，更不可能会对国家做出贡献!

XX年奥巴马开学演讲观后感

奥巴马，一个拥有深刻的人文情怀的美国总统，他在做这个演讲的时候，完全没有官话套话，以普通的寒暄，幽默的玩笑开始，他既像一个慈祥的父亲对着自己假期还没玩够嘟着小嘴不愿上学的孩子耐心的哄着，并告诉自己的孩子他可以理解;同时他也站在一个总统的高度，给学生讲教师的责任，家长的责任，政府的责任，进而告诉学生也要明确自己的责任，奥巴马开学演讲观后感。因为哪怕前面所述的一切都达到最好，哪怕我们有最尽职的教师、最好的家长、和最优秀的学校，假如学生不去履行自己的责任的话，那么这一切努力都会白费。--除非你每天准时去上学、除非你认真地听老师讲课、除非你把父母、长辈和其他大人们说的话放在心上、除非你肯付出成功所必需的努力，否则这一切都会失去意义。

贾斯敏·佩雷兹，安多尼·舒尔兹，香特尔·史蒂夫，迈克尔乔丹，贾斯敏、安多尼和香特尔，一个个例子，顺手拈来，只为向各位中学生说明最简单的道理--你的未来，并不取决于你现在的生活有多好或多坏，没有人为你编排好你的命运，在美国，你的命运由你自己书写，你的未来由你自己掌握。

他告诉每一个在做的学生，要坚持要勤奋，要勇往直前不退缩，要立志要有目标要对自己对国家的未来负责。从历史的角度告诉大家应该带着责任感去学习，想想几十年后的未来，那时的总统会如何来评价下面听讲的学生为国家做出了什么贡献。

总统在中学生面前，已经完全将他们作为成人来看，作为国家公民来看，作为国家未来的栋梁来看，相信下面的学生可以感受到那一份深深地责任和使命。中间穿插了一些人擦拭泪水的镜头，我在看的时候也深深被打动，被感动，被激励了!

他是一个循循善诱的教师，一个亲切睿智的父亲，一个有苦难经历的学生，一个真诚善意的朋友。美国的中学生有这样的总统给他们发表这样的演讲是幸运的。

推荐给大家，如果你还是一个学生，希望看到了，可以更加坚定你求学的道路上走得更加坚强，无论你遇到了什么困难，都要想到还有比你更艰难的，要相信你值得为自己定下的目标付出艰苦卓绝的努力，因为没有人可以随随便便成功。

勇敢去尝试吧，因为如果没有尝试过，也许你就不会发现自己的天赋!

尽量去努力吧，因为如果没有付出过，也许你就不会得到别人得不到的!

尽量去坚持吧，因为没有人能随随便便成功，克服困难，让自己与众不同! XX年奥巴马开学演讲观后感

XX年9月，美国总统奥巴马在美国弗吉尼亚洲阿灵顿郡——韦克菲尔德高中，发表了精彩的开学演讲。小雪妈看了后深受启发。下面让我们来看看奥巴马是如何做精彩的教育演讲的?

虽说是教育的演讲，但整个演讲过程，没有一个专业术语，有些甚至是孩子内心的真实想法，非常通俗易懂。说话语气也是非常平易近人，通过身边孩子熟悉的事情、人物的举例，让孩子非常容易接受观点，没有命令式的。

他以一句“你们今天过的怎么样?”开场，一下子拉近了与孩子们的距离，给人一种非常平易近人的感觉。“感谢韦克菲尔德出色的安排，请大家为自己鼓掌”，给孩子们以自信。接着，运用容易理解和接受的语言方式，层层推进解释和贯输他的观点。这让我们的家长不得不反省自己，平时和孩子交流、说话的态度、方式。

1、谈责任

对于这个问题，面对一群孩子、学生，可能会很难讲清楚。奥巴

马又是怎么把责任和国家、孩子自身联系起来的?他是怎样引出话题并讲清楚“责任”这个问题的?

“开学第一天，紧张是正常的”“还想继续过暑期的这份心情，也是可以理解的”，通过说出孩子此时心情，让孩子非常有兴趣继续听，从而引出他今天的重要事情：谈每个人的教育。

(1)他告诉孩子们，家长、老师、学校乃至国家是如何重视和保障教育问题。

以更高层次、更广的思维空间让孩子了解到学习不仅仅是个人的问题，教育关系到国家的未来，教育给你的益处决定国家的未来。这样，爱国主义、国家责任感也建立起来了。

(2)每个人都有长处，每个人都是有用之才，你对自己应尽的责任是什么?是发现自己的才能。

如果没有学英语时的多写作——自己的文章就不会出现在报刊杂志上。

如果不在自然课多做实验——也不会发现发明、创新才能。

如果没有参加辩论赛——不会发现自己当市长、法官的才能。

(3)告诉大家，良好的教育，是从事任何一种职业的需要。辍学，也要培训、努力、学习，才能有工作。实际上，告诉大家，学习是必不可少的。

(4)把学习的内容与自身未来联系起来。

数理科学课程学习和技能——治疗癌症、癌滋病那样的疾病

新能源技术——保护环境

历史社科课程——观察力、判断力培养，从而抗击贫困和解决无家可归问题，打击犯罪和消除歧视，国家更公平、自由。

这样简单的解说，孩子们肯定一下子搞明白，学习是自己的一种责任，而不是为家长而学。

2、谈困难

(1)困难是现实存在的

知道了责任，有时孩子还是很难集中精力进行学习，奥巴马用

自己的亲身体会来告诉孩子自己原来也是遇到过各种困难和有不好的表现，但关键抓住了重来的机会。

(2)正确对待困难

他告诉孩子不可能对每门课都很有兴趣;不是所有的家庭作业都与你眼前生活完全有关;不是任何事情，头一次就能成功。但没关系，世上成功的人都是遭遇失败最多的。还举例，《哈里。波特》第一次出版，遭受12次的退回。

成功的关键是，拒绝放弃，为自己的人生、教育负责。成功的原因，是明白不能以失败左右自己，并思考怎么去改变。所有的困难不能成为忽视学习、学习态度不好的借口。命运掌握在自己手里，命运靠自己书写，只要是坚持、勤奋、努力。

3、谈目标

简单的说，完成作业;认真听讲;每天阅读;打算参加课外活动;社区活动;因身份或长相受人戏弄或欺负孩子，挺身而出;更好的照顾好自己，为将来学习做准备等等都是目标。非常实在吧!有了目标后，必须脚踏实地的去做。

从这里也可以给我们启示，我们的家长对孩子有太高的期望值，在让孩子设计目标或家长在设计孩子目标时，一定是她们能做到的。

最后告诉孩子们，在学习中注意把握：

(1)努力

(2)熟能生巧

(3)求助是力量的标志，有勇气承认不足

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