Barack Obama's Inspirational Speech with Subtitles || One of the best English speeches ever 2023

When I was young, my family lived abroad. I lived in Indonesia for a few years and my mother didn't have the money to send me to the school where all the American kids went, but she thought it was important for me to keep up. American education, so she decided to give me extra lessons herself from Monday to Friday, but since she had to go to work, the only time she could do it was at 4:30 in the morning, but

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y time I complained, my mother just She'd give me one of those looks and she'd say this isn't a picnic for me, so I know some of you are still adjusting to being back in school, but I'm here today because I have something important to discuss with you, My father left my family.

When I was two years old and was raised by a single mother who had to work and who sometimes struggled to pay the bills and couldn't always give us the things that other children had, there were times when I missed having a father in my life, there were times where I felt alone and felt like I didn't fit in so I wasn't always as focused as I should have been in school and I did some things I'm not proud of and I got into more trouble than I should have and my life It could have easily gotten worse, but I was lucky, I had a lot of second chances, and I had the opportunity to go to law school and follow my dreams. wife of 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 to be able to go to the

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schools in this country. in your life will provide you with the support you need, maybe someone in your family has lost their job and there isn't enough money to walk around a neighborhood where you don't feel safe or you have friends who pressure you to do things you know aren't right.

So. Okay, maybe you could be a great writer, maybe even good enough to write a book or newspaper articles, but you might not know until you write that English paper, that English class paper that you were assigned, maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone or the new drug or vaccine, but you might not know until you do your project for your science class, maybe Maybe you could be a mayor, a senator, or a Supreme Court justice, but you might not know it until you join the student government or the debate team, and no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee you'll need an education to do it.

You want to be a doctor, teacher or police officer. If you want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military, you will need a good education for each of those careers. You can't drop out of school and just get a good job. train for it, work for it and learn for it, and this is not only important for your own life and your own future, what you do with your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country, the future of America depends on you. What you are learning in school today will determine whether we, as a nation, can meet our greatest challenges in the future.

You will need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and mathematics to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS and develop new energy. Technologies and protect our environment, you will need the knowledge and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty, homelessness, crime and discrimination and make our nation fairer and freer. , you will need the creativity and ingenuity you develop. all your classes to build new businesses will create new jobs and boost our economy. We need each of you to develop your talents, your skills and your intellect so that you can help us old people solve our most difficult problems if you don't.

Don't do that, if you give up on school, you are not only giving up on yourself, but you are giving up on your country. I know it's not always easy to do well in school. I know many of you have challenges in your lives right now that you can work through. It's hard to concentrate on your schoolwork I get it, I know what it is but at the end of the day the circumstances of your life how you see yourself where you come from how much money you have what you have at home none of that is an excuse to neglect your homework or have a bad attitude at school that's no excuse for talking back to your teacher or skipping class or dropping out of school there's no excuse not to try where you are now doesn't have to determine where you end up no one has written your destiny for you because here in the United States United you write your own destiny you make your own future that's what young people like you do

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y day across America that's why today I call on each of you to set your own goals for your education and make Do everything you can to achieve them Your goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework paying attention in class or spending time each day reading a book Maybe you decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity or volunteer in your community Maybe you decide to advocate for the children who are being teased or bullied because of who they are or how they look because you believe, as I do, that all young people deserve a safe environment to study and learn, you may decide to take better care of yourself so that you are more prepared to learn, but whatever Whatever you decide to do I want you to commit to it I want you to really work at it I know sometimes you get it Television has the feeling that you can be rich and successful without any hard work.

That your ticket to success is through rap, basketball or being a television star. Chances are you're neither of those things. The truth is that being successful is difficult. you want to love every subject you study you won't fit in with every teacher you have not every assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right now and you won't necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try that's okay Some of the most successful people in the world world are the ones that have had the most failures. JK Rawlings, who wrote Harry Potter. His first Harry Potter book was rejected 12 times before it was finally published.

Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. He lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career, but he once said: I have failed over and over again in my life and that is why I was successful. These people were successful 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 next time, so if you get in trouble, that doesn't mean you're a troublemaker, it means you have to try harder to act right if you get in trouble. a bad grade that doesn't mean you're stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying no one is born good at everything you get good at things through hard work you're not a college athlete the first time you play a new sport you don't play all the notes the first time you sing a song you have to practice the same principle applies to your schoolwork you may have to solve a math problem several times before you get it right you may have to read something several times before you understand it you definitely have to make a few drafts of a document before it is good enough to deliver don't be afraid to ask questions don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it I do say that asking for help every day is not a sign of weakness It is a sign of strength because it shows that 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 you trust - a parent, a grandparent, a teacher, a coach or a counselor and ask them to help you.

They help you stay on track to achieve your goals and even when you're struggling, even when you're discouraged, you feel like other people have given up on you, they don't. Do you ever give up because when you give up, you give up your country. American history is not about people who quit when the going got tough, but about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do so. nothing less than your

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story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago and then waged a revolution and founded this nation young students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a depression and won a World War they fought for civil rights and putting a man on the moon, students who sat where you sit 20 years ago, who founded Google, Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other, so today I want to ask all of you What will be your contribution?

What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a president who comes here in 20, 50 or 100 years say about what all of you did for this country? Now their families, their teachers and I are doing everything we can to achieve this. I'm sure you have the education you need to answer these questions. I am working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books, equipment and computers you need to learn the foreign language. Y'all get serious this year. I hope you 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 or your country down, above all, don't let yourself down, make us all proud.