○  奥巴马总统在开学日的讲话（中英对照）  ○

lity to yourself to discover what that is. that’s the opportunity an education can provide.

maybe you could be a good writer – maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper – but you might not know it until you write a paper for your english class. maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor – maybe even good enough to come up with the next iphone or a new medicine or vaccine – but you might not know it until you do a project for your science class. maybe you could be a mayor or a senator or a supreme court justice, but you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team.

and no matter what you want to do with your life – i guarantee that you’ll need an education to do it. you want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? you want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? you’re going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. you can’t drop out of school and just drop into a good job. you’ve got to work for it and train for it and learn for it.

and this isn’t just important for your own life and your own future. what you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. what you’re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.

you’ll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and aids, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our environment. you’ll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free. you’ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy.

we need every single one of you to develop your talents, skills and intel

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