Sunday, December 24th, 2006
i’ve decided to re-post my blog on September 18, 05′
Finally - someone says it all
out loud! 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
can read this - Thank a teacher!
