A teacher who gets it

Posted By: edAudit

A teacher who gets it - 06/08/12 04:31 PM

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national...ticle-1.1092109



A straight-talking English teacher at Wellesley High School set out to take students down a notch in his speech to the class of 2012, by telling them they’re nothing special.

“You are not special. You are not exceptional,” David McCullough Jr. told graduating seniors from the affluent Massachusetts town last weekend.



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My favorite:


Driving the point home, he added, "Think about this: 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."
Posted By: Retired DQ

Re: A teacher who gets it - 06/08/12 05:02 PM

*Applauds the teach*
Posted By: manimal

Re: A teacher who gets it - 06/08/12 05:04 PM


"So many of the adults around them — the behavior of the adults around them — gives them this sort of inflated sense of themselves. And I thought they needed a little context, a little perspective," McCullough told Fox News.


Maybe his speech should have been to the adults instead.
Posted By: Retired DQ

Re: A teacher who gets it - 06/08/12 05:07 PM

That too... laugh
Posted By: Bob The Banker

Re: A teacher who gets it - 06/08/12 05:34 PM

I can see it now... 72% of students in attendence will be prescribed zoloft and several multi-million dollar lawsuits emerge from the trauma of his words.
Posted By: bonette

Re: A teacher who gets it - 06/08/12 05:39 PM

I bet their moms think they are special.
Posted By: Bacon Boy

Re: A teacher who gets it - 06/08/12 05:55 PM

::claps wildly whilst jumping around in circles anti-clockwise::
Posted By: HappyGilmore

Re: A teacher who gets it - 06/08/12 07:48 PM

and then they were all handed medals with the diplomas...