To anyone with kids, of any age, or anyone who has ever been a kid, here's some advice Bill Gates dished out at a high school speech about 11 things they did not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good politically correct teachings created a full generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
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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 until 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 parents' 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 (nor are video games). 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.
-- Bill Gates
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