High school teacher tells graduating students: you’re not special
“Yes, you’ve been pampered, cosseted, doted upon, helmeted, bubble-wrapped,” McCullough said in his speech. “Yes, capable adults with other things to do have held you, kissed you, fed you, wiped your mouth, wiped your bottom, trained you, taught you, tutored you, coached you, listened to you, counseled you, encouraged you, consoled you and encouraged you again. You’ve been nudged, cajoled, wheedled and implored. You’ve been feted and fawned over and called sweetie pie. … But do not get the idea you’re anything special. Because you’re not.”
David McCullough Jr, an english teacher explains (yes Boulderites, it’s was on Fox News)….
He said kids need independence. They need to struggle and stumble to make it in today’s difficult, competitive world. But too often parents are there to throw the pillows on the floor. “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. “To send them off into the world with an inflated sense of themselves is doing them no favors.”
