In an unusually candid tenor, Ben Sasse delivered an online commencement address for Nebraska’s Fremont High School that managed to enrage most everyone. Sasse’s speech, which was one part stand-up and another a critique of China, stoked ire from state senators and online critics, going viral with the descriptor that it was the “worst graduation speech of all time.”

But here’s the thing: It might just be the best. The backlash to it just goes to show how broken our societal understanding of education has become.