I just read this article on Yahoo... http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/high-school-graduation-speaker-tells-students-not-special-145709954.html and I love this quote from it:


Thought I'd share this here where I am among others who might appreciate it.

Love it!

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"If children were brought into the world by pure reason alone, would the human race exist?"
Arthur Schopenhauer

This is probably the best commencement speech I have heard in a long time. This guy gets it! I think his message is timely and captures a sea change in the culture of too much "specialness".

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“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.”
― Bill Cosby

In Thomas Friedman's book "The World is Flat," he describes how great the Chinese will be eventually with the line, "In China, being 1 in a million means that there are a thousand like you," as a way of honing in just how tough the competition is for everything from a college admission to a job in academia.

I really liked this speech given by David McCullough, an English teacher at Wellesley High School:

http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2 ... t-special/

The full speech is on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lfxYhtf8o4

His speech was not appropriate, the graduates should have been congratulated.
If I would get this speech after graduating, I would probably get depression.
He is probably jealous of the cushy lives the students had.

I completely disagree. This speech is full of awesomeness. I'm pretty sure we already have a thread on here about it.

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You know me, always like to savor that last shot before popping the heatsink.

I couldn't find the other thread but if you can point me to it I'll merge away!

Loved that speech. Exactly what those kids need to hear and I believe the speaker said it because he actually cared about the graduates. He didn't blow a bunch of smoke up their gowns and actually told them how things really work. Nothing more appropriate than that.

I'd say you're very easily depressed then.

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