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[YMFB]

Subject: Bill Gates HIgh School Speech -

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 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 car phone 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.

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

[philthy]

That should be tattooed onto the head of every politically correct plonker in this country!

Phil

[YMFB]

and some DSC forum users

[Rushjob]

True...................................

:P

[electricsheep]

wise words

Rule 12 don't believe anything that you read on the internet

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

[Edited on 9-11-2005 by electricsheep]

[Tonio600]

Wise words for school children

[Edité le 9-11-2005 par Tonio600]

[Mr_S]

Wise words for many I think, not just school children.

I know a fair few adults that 1 to 5 can apply to..

[YMFB]

I didnt think for on second that Mr gates gave these dictums they are a little to crass I am sure. But having read some diatribe on another thread I thought some forum users could do with some wise words.