It’s About What You Say, Not How You Say It | James Mason Jr. | TEDxHunting Valley

On the first day of ninth grade, James Mason Jr. walked into English class with six months of memorized vocabulary, ready to prove that how you say something matters most. The praise never came, so he kept adjusting, building a different James for every room. Drawing on W.E.B. Du Bois, he draws the line between adaptation, which lets us connect, and conformity, which asks us to disappear. James Mason Jr. is a senior at University School, one of ten elected House Prefects, State Runner-Up in Poetry Out Loud, a Sherm...