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From Bill Gates [message #51816]

Tue, 29 July 2008 16:46

ChowanBoyRedux

Likes it here

Location: United States
Registered: January 2008
Messages: 203

My cousin sent me this and I thought you guys might like to read it too.

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! 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 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 $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a corner office until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

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 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. Cool

Re: From Bill Gates [message #51824 is a reply to message #51816]

Tue, 29 July 2008 21:09

acam

On fire!

Location: UK
Registered: July 2007
Messages: 1849

Well, Donny,

I think that is excellent! It brings back echoes of my own father who always said "life isn't fair so there's no point in me trying to be fair; if you and your brother fight and it annoys me you both will suffer!"

At the time I thought this was just wrong. (I was right and my brother was wrong and yet when he quarreled with me we both got cuffed round the ears.)

I do think children nowadays are too insulated from the real world. My grandchildren are used to being ferried everywhere by car and they CAN'T learn to be street-wise and Bristol is quite a large city and has a full complement of dangerous people in it.

And parents just have to sit on their hands sometimes and watch their children face and cope with danger. "Yes you can climb the tree, but you are not to fall off and get hurt!"

"Yes you can bring your boyfriend home for the night but you are not to get pregnant!"

"Yes!"

Love,
Anthony

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