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‘Kids have to stumble, they should fall’

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Veteran English teacher David McCullough Jr., whose unusual graduation speech at Wellesley High School went viral, told NBC Nightly News it’s important for kids to embrace failure rather than always striving to avoid it. Creativity, he added, should be for the good of others because ‘selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself.’