'You're Not Special' Graduation Speech

"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," quoting empirical evidence...".* Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks.

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[MondoMiniman]

At least the teacher got it. Sometimes they make it seem like you accomplished the impossible with those speeches. "Oh you finished high school, how did you do it?

[Waltonaters]

This is the first TYT video I ever watched. OK, this is awesome, and why I've watched TYT ever since :) love ya TYT

[edgarcasey]

"Climb the mountain to see the world, not so the world can see you."

[Neils Dahlberg]

The students have absorbed all this information --Now what will they Produce???

[fourtywpm]

I'm sure they were all expecting golden stars for their amazing accomplishments..

[wribit]

It's an interesting perspective for sure... although, I wonder if you'd have received it differently would it have been a guy saying the same things.

[TruthSurge]

That was awesome. Finally someone telling those kids truth. You are NOT unique and special. You are just one of billions.  But with extreme luck and/or a lot of hard work, you can BECOME special.

[66buff]

Imo it seems like the guy was winging it,pulling sentences out of the sky.Nothing special or great about this speech.

[bmcmvox]

Every jackass kid nowadays thinks they are special and entitled. They are in for a huge wake up call when they realize that they are just there to sit on the assembly line of society until they retire. Welcome to the real world, jackasses.

[TJ11286]

I agree. I like the fact that they get the stories correct, but I can't stand the injection of personal animus into their stories anymore. i.e., Cenk's discontent with Obama: He just sounds like he's whining instead of making an intellectual point, even when he is making an intellectual point. I prefer the Bill Moyers approach to presenting news stories.

[butterflyreflections]

e.g. the 14 year old kid on radio who said something like "I hate the sin, not the sinner" - they should explain (rationally) why that is vacuous logic, not just be exasperated.