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.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national...9#ixzz1xDiQDIS9
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."
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.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national...9#ixzz1xDiQDIS9
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."