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Bill Gates speaks to Kids...........
To anyone with
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 talks 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.
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