Bill Gates
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. Love him or hate him, he sure hit
the nail on the head with this!
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.