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Generation Special
What's really different about the class of 2012?
----文章选自Newsweek杂志
WHEN SCHOOLTEACHER David McCullough Jr. delivered a commencement address that told the
graduating class at Wellesley High School that they were "not special,"I his words became a viral sensation on YouTube and Face book, Twitter and Tumblr. Was he out of his mind, reversing the mantra that every affluent American kid imbibes with his or her daily Adderall? Surely helicopter parents across the country would unite to kick this dissenter to the academic curb.
Nor so. McCullough found himself deluged by positive emails, more than 700 of them. Only four emails, he tells us, were critical of him. It seems there was a pent-up parental rage out there about the very syndrome the parents themselves have created. Having spent their kids' school years barging up to the head teacher's office to insist their sons and daughters did not deserve to get a mere B-plus, did deserve to make the soccer team, must be given the history prize, should be applying only to Ivy League schools, it seems that affluent parents now have a major beef with how their offspring ... correction, the offspring of others ... are turning out. Just a bit entitled perhaps?
A little unrealistic in expectations? A little complacent? THeRe's A growing dystopian groundswell of opinion that Our very jaunty Man we've given our children every- featured a survey thing-except for the thing they generation's experi need most and the thing no one can provide, the ability to find their own core passion without artificial support. And the understanding of how much work, how much sheer effort, it takes to succeed. In McCullough's My Turn essay on page 26, he describes his recent experience of waiting nervously in the greenroom at CBS with economics Nobel laureate Paul Krugman. The episode spurs McCullough to wonder about the source of Krugman's accomplishments-and to conclude that they have flowed from a mixture of innate ability and self-motivation.
INFLATION, constant shielding from reality, all the someone offered, with little regard for his self-esteem, McCullough reckons, in Krugman's upbringing.“Likely flicts affluent young Americans would have been absent, things that result in the excess of amour-propre that af- he carried on because he enjoyed learning-and might criticism of something he had written. And I'm guessing he worked hard for a long time with no sign of external have anyway as a matter of principle had he not. Probably haps even an inextricable part of his being." had become a pleasure, then a joy, then a way of life, per-special. And I'll guess over time he came to realize the toil reward. For none of this did he feel particularly heroic. Or But coNsiDeR when Krugman grew up compared with what today's emerging generation faces. The Nobel laurejence on campus, a rude comedown. The anthem they will hear after the at school about how wonderful they are is about to meet where the cultural hype they have been fed at home and ica the beautiful as America the beaten. Bowed down by champagne corks pop at graduation is not so much Amer- near as well as their parents did. And nothing about their have to be pretty special--and very lucky-to live anywhere a decade's worth of college debt, these kids are going to upbringing prepared them for this. Perhaps we should allow them one last summer of grand illusion.
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