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Attributed to Bill Gates [message #40978]

Tue, 13 February 2007 20:52

Nigel

On fire!

Location: England
Registered: November 2003
Messages: 1756

This should be posted in all schools. ?

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! To anyone with kids of any age, here's some advice.

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real w orld.

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 $60,000 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.

Ru le 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 thought you were. 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.

If you agree, pass it on. If you can read this - Thank a teacher!
If you are reading it in English
-
Thank a soldier!

I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.

…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.

Not Bill Gates. [message #40979 is a reply to message #40978]

Tue, 13 February 2007 22:50

Deeej

Needs to get a life!

Location: Berkshire, UK
Registered: March 2005
Messages: 3281

http://www.snopes.com/language/document/liferule.htm

Re: Not Bill Gates. [message #40980 is a reply to message #40979]

Wed, 14 February 2007 04:01

E.J.

Really getting into it

Location: U.S.
Registered: August 2003
Messages: 565

It's always a good idea to ckeck "Urban Legends Reference Pages" ( http://www.snopes.com/ ) before posting a quote. That way proper credit can be given.

(\\__/) And if you don't believe The sun will rise
(='.'=) Stand alone and greet The coming night
(")_(") In the last remaining light. (C. Cornell)

Re: Attributed to Bill Gates [message #40982 is a reply to message #40978]

Wed, 14 February 2007 08:59

Nigel

On fire!

Location: England
Registered: November 2003
Messages: 1756

Has the word 'attributed' lost its meaning?

Hugs
N

I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.

…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.

Re: Attributed to Bill Gates [message #40985 is a reply to message #40982]

Wed, 14 February 2007 12:54

Deeej

Needs to get a life!

Location: Berkshire, UK
Registered: March 2005
Messages: 3281

No. But there's no point in 'attributing' something to someone if it's easy to check who actually wrote it.

You could attribute it to yourself and it would still be true according to the meaning of the word 'attribute'. If there's no strong evidence to suggest that the attribution is correct then it is essentially useless. The quotation doesn't sound like something Bill Gates would say.

Anyway,

>Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real w orld.

this is not just attribution; it's an apparent statement of fact. I appreciate you probably just cut-and-pasted it. But it's not clear where you finish and the quotation begins.

David

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