High School

by Peter Saint-Andre

2005-01-31

Paul Graham's essay Why Nerds are Unpopular is just about the best description I've ever read of American public high schools (from which I didn't graduate). Now he's published another essay on the same general topic, consisting of a graduation speech that he never got to deliver because the folks in charge of the school probably realized how radically seditious it was. As my friends across the pond would say: spot on.


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