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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. In You Are (Not) Special, McCullough elaborates on his now-famous speech exploring 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.

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Book category Books in English Health & personal development Self-help & personal development

• Full title: You Are Not Special
• Author: David McCullough
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9781922247780
• ISBN: 1922247782
• ID: 02779294
• Publisher: Scribe Publications
• Weight: 372 g
• Dimensions: 188 × 132 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. September 2014

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