Come on, really? Out of all that, THIS is the message you take away, and yet manage to misconstrue?
He didn't say any of that. He didn't compare his students with others; he compared them only to _themselves_. He didn't mention other schools, or in fact other people altogether.
I’m telling you this because you all need to know that there is not some great pool of amazing people in some other place who are going to shape the way our species navigates the coming decades.
These students are no more "special" than any other students at any other university.
Even more-so, the students that "made it" to UC really, really don't need yet another person telling them that.