You’re not going to believe this ABC News video! It’s a couple of minutes long and packed with meaning and amazement! It’s about a micro-sculpture, Willard Wigan.

What Wigan said about how the teachers at school made him feel (made him feel small, like nothing) is so relevant in today’s education system. The drop-out rate in American high school is 1/3 of students. It’s an obvious failure of the world and our teachers and parents to value the gifts our children have instead of beating them up with their weaknesses. In real life, we work to our strengths and get help with our weaknesses. In school, we are forced to focus on our weaknesses until we improve or quit.

I’d rather my son find a passion out of something he likes instead of something in which he believes he has a deficit.

Still, selling such a unique art collection for $20 million? Not too shabby. I wonder what Wigan’s former teachers think of him now?

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