You Are Not Special Commencement Speech from Wellesley High School
Commencement speeches often extoll graduates as the new hope for the future, celebrating their achievements and telling them that they can change the world.
David McCullough, Wellesley High English teacher, took a different approach as commencement speaker. “You’re not special,” he tells the crowd of graduating seniors. "Contrary to what your soccer trophy suggests, your glowing seventh grade report card, despite every assurance of a certain corpulent purple dinosaur, that nice Mister Rogers, and your batty Aunt Sylvia, no matter how often your maternal caped crusader has swooped in to save you… you’re nothing special."
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