Should
be posted in all schools and work places.
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, po
litically 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 ea rn
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 can read this in English Thank a
soldier!!! |