Speech by Bill Gates ) THIS SAYS IT ALL!!
To anyone teaching or raising kids, of any age,
here's some advice Bill Gates recently dished out
at a high school speech about 11 things they did
not learn in school. He talked about how feel-good,
politically correct teaching has created a full
generation of kids with no concept of reality and
how this concept set them up for failure in the
real world.
RULE 1
Life is not fair - get used to it.
RULE 2
The world won't care about your self-esteem.
The world will expect you to accomplish
something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
RULE 3
You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year
right out of high school. You won't be a vice
president with a car phone, until you earn both.
RULE 4
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you
get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
RULE 5
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your
grandparents had a different word for burger
flipping-- they called it opportunity.
RULE 6
If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so
don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
RULE 7
Before you were born, your parents weren't as
boring as they are now. They got that way from
paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and
listening to you talk about how cool you are. So
before you save the rain forest from the parasites
of your parent's generation, try delousing the
closet in your own room.
RULE 8
Your school may have done away with winners
and losers, but life has not.
In some schools they have abolished failing grades
and they'll give you as many times as you want to
get the right answer.
This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to
ANYTHING in real life.
RULE 9 Life is not divided into semesters. You
don't get summers off and very few employers are
interested in helping you find yourself. Do that
on your own time.
RULE 10
Television is NOT real life. In real life people
actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to
jobs.
RULE 11
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up
working for one.
AI
