I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.
Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.
We live in an age of mediocrity.
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
No, I'm not angling for huge fame. My career has been a very slow, arduous climb to the middle.
I was a mediocre B-average student throughout my school years.
I was just an okay person.
