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You're a Native Son of a Single Mother Who's a Secretary
I was neither a good student nor a good test taker. I was unremarkable in every way. And one of the things that scares me about our society to day is that we've sort of fallen out of love with the unremarkable. There's never been a better time to be remarkable. Kids from inner cities who are remarkable can find the way to harvard, and harvard will find them. But sort of what i'll call middle of the road, good, but not great, people that might have a great future ahead of them. It's harder and harder to get into great schools. As an academic, we academics,. have lost the scrip, that we think of