Nothing In All The World Is More Dangerous That Sincere Ignorance And Conscientious Stupidity

If I am Not Special, What Are You? “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity” (King). In David McCullough Jr.’s “You Are Not Special” speech, he surely proved that theory. Mr. McCullough, who is an English teacher at Wellesley High school, spoke at the class of 2012 graduation. The quote above reflects his speech because it seemed like he knew near to nothing about the little details he threw into his speech such as “…Make for yourselves, please, for your sake and for ours, extraordinary lives” this is the last sentence to tie it all together, because the “for your sake and ours” part really is effective due to the fact that one should be doing nothing with their life for others, it’s their life not anyone else’s, so why live one’s life according to someone else’s feelings? In McCullough’s speech he had some elements that stood out, such as closed minded thoughts and statements such as “you are not special, you are not exceptional.” It was closed minded because who cares if others don’t think a person is special, if they think they are special then everyone else’s thoughts are irrelevant. His slight amusing, moderate jokes were also an element, jokes such as “Normally I avoid clichés like the plague wouldn’t touch them with a ten foot pole.” He does not have a real grasp on his main idea in his precious speech; he kept going back and forth between three different main ideas. Ideas like “do things for others not just for you, and for rewards” also “do good for yourself, think about yourself” lastly “don’t be lazy getting out of high school get up and do something”. He did not have one main idea to talk about; he was trying to make many different points which contradicted him. The elements McCullough brought to the speech really do say that his beliefs were pointed out and made clear. The speaker used an encouraging and an amusing effect on his audience. Although he may have a different effect on everyone,