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You are not special : and other encouragements / David McCullough, Jr.

by McCullough, David G., Jr.

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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2014]

Teenagers -- Conduct of life.

Conduct of life.

9780062257345 (hc.)

006225734X (hc.)

xxxii, 316 pages illustration ; 19 cm.

"A profound expansion of David McCullough, Jr.'s popular You Are Not Special commencement speech given in 2012 at Wellesley High School in Massachusetts -- a call to arms against a prevailing, narrow, conception of success viewed by millions on YouTube -- You Are (Not) Special is a love letter to students and parents as well as a guide to a truly fulfilling, happy life. Children today, says David McCullough -- high school English teacher, father of four, and son and namesake of the famous historian -- are being encouraged to sacrifice passionate engagement with life for specious notions of success. The intense pressure to excel discourages kids from taking chances, failing, and learning empathy and self-confidence from those failures. McCullough explores how, for what purpose, and for whose sake, we're raising our kids. With wry, affectionate humor, McCullough takes on hovering parents, ineffectual schools, professional college prep, electronic distractions, club sports, and generally the manifestations, and the applications and consequences of privilege. By acknowledging that the world is indifferent to them, McCullough takes pressure off of students to be extraordinary achievers and instead exhorts them to roll up their sleeves and do something useful with their advantages. David McCullough, Jr. has taught high school students for nearly thirty years. He lives in Sudbury, Massachusetts"--Provided by publisher.

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