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  • jernigan highschool graduation and english teacher came up to of the

  • standard and

  • delivered at one of the best commencement speeches i've ever heard

  • do not get the idea anything special

  • the empirical evidence is everywhere numbers even an english teacher can

  • ignore

  • newton natick

  • i'm allowed to say needham yes

  • that has to be two thousand high school graduates right there giver taken as

  • just the neighborhood ends

  • across the country no fewer than three point two million seniors are graduating

  • about now for more than thirty seven thousand high schools

  • that's thirty seven thousand valedictorians

  • thirty seven thousand class presidents ninety two thousand harmonizing altos

  • three hundred and forty thousand swaggering jocks

  • two million one hundred eighty-five thousand nine hundred sixty seven pairs

  • of odds

  • but why limit ourselves to high school after all you're leaving it

  • so think about this even if your one-in-a-million on a plane above six

  • point eight billion that means there are nearly seven thousand people just like

  • you

  • subjects are high school graduates and usually you get people who have lots of

  • that pablo yemeni tell you how amazing you are you compasses briefing in your

  • life

  • but this english teacher david david will call up

  • basically is not buying it he sang out there so many people who are getting

  • these high school diploma as is college diplomas and it doesn't mean anything at

  • all

  • forget about the trophy is forget about the piece of paper go out there and do

  • something that actually

  • makes a difference

  • and he says that later on he says

  • archie increases the graduates to do whatever it and you know ford no reason

  • other then allotment and believe it's important

  • and the beginning when i first read the headline on her own of the sky

  • this some chances go on the wrong direction because these are you not

  • inspirational man camp but better manage discovery downer ticket would rather

  • have a good times we had a really hard time his kids that what do you have a

  • work day world brass sunday uh...

  • but in reality and love what he's saying when you

  • and that's what congress is so important in a small speech

  • in the first of all we do pay for the kids too much uh... oman guide charting

  • and also i don't think there are out of the planet germany on a pedestal just

  • calm down ok there's a lot of frickin johnny's

  • made a great

  • okay

  • member what you were born with

  • look inordinate

  • actually

  • feel that

  • you know i'm a suburban

  • about being special and doing something special

  • mentioned did

  • that was a thrust of this speech it's not accomplishment so i'm not just your

  • parents saying it or somebody in a graduation speech saying it that's

  • actually accomplish something and he said the way you accomplish something is

  • that if you love doing it you work hard

  • about a million per cent true and then once you have a sense of accomplishment

  • that's worth something

  • and by keep those kids can figure out what's in a way

  • and i feel like uh... every you know sneeze and cough they have is just the

  • good god blessed been god-given thing

  • then that's a different humanity

  • so many they gotta work really hard courts so they can actually create

  • something

  • uh... that's a value to themselves and

  • you of their community well everybody's a million times better off including m

  • osa specially those kids themselves

  • i think in society we get so obsessed with

  • uh... is trivial achievements that mean nothing whether it's getting a piece of

  • paper and getting a trophy

  • whatever it is you know just collecting all these little achievements that make

  • us feel bad about ourselves but at the end of the day

  • it makes absolutely no difference at all like for instance if you don't mind

  • master's degree meant nothing beverly really really really

  • it anything ready once dot coppersmith but that

  • the dot accomplishment

  • do anything for the world did it for filled me in any spitz significant way

  • no it didn't but this is an antisense and going out again is a legitimate

  • what it is something that you checking when we'd love to do something that

  • makes you feel fulfilled right offhand

  • you left much better life when you do that so don't focus too much on getting

  • those little achievements because of the attitude of a bitter about it

  • or at least someone hit

  • dot

  • company while higher one that american you miss associations

  • uh... you miss media war this week and that's why i was a norrell inside to

  • feel that they're gay i've put up on our little

  • above our fireplace and this morning i was like where you would be very good

  • not a big girl

  • williams knew there were business grow and prop up dot dinner and go to bed

  • maturity

  • she's dating for over two

  • it's okay to graduate from high school and college in damascus let's go to its

  • find any problem

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