High School Teacher’s ‘You Are Not Special’ Graduation Speech
Wellesley High English teacher David McCullough Jr. tells graduates ‘You are not special. You are not exceptional’
Social media was buzzing about a Boston-area high school teacher’s blunt commencement speech that told students they “are not special.”
Wellesley High English teacher David McCullough Jr. told graduates “You are not special. You are not exceptional.”
McCullough makes a statement on parents who overdo it in a modern society focused on collecting achievements. “You’ve been pampered, cosseted, doted upon, helmeted, bubble wrapped … feted and fawned over and called sweetie pie.”
“You see, if everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless. … We have of late, we Americans, to our detriment, come to love accolades more than genuine achievement.”
“Across the country no fewer than 3.2 million seniors are graduating about now from more than 37,000 high schools. That’s 37,000 valedictorians … 37,000 class presidents … 92,000 harmonizing altos … 340,000 swaggering jocks … 2,185,967 pairs of Uggs,” he said in the speech published in the Boston Herald.
He added: “Even if you’re one in a million, on a planet of 6.8 billion that means there are nearly 7,000 people just like you.”
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