Sweeper
08-29-2001, 09:51 AM
Bill Gates Speech
Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the
head with this! To anyone with kids of any age, or
anyone who has ever been a kid, here's some advice
Bill Gates recently 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.
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 till
you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers are 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. 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.
Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the
head with this! To anyone with kids of any age, or
anyone who has ever been a kid, here's some advice
Bill Gates recently 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.
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 till
you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers are 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. 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.