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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 thingsthey did not and will not learn in school. He talks about howfeel-good,politically correct teachings created a generation of kidswith no concept of reality and how this concept set them up forfailure 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 willexpect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good aboutyourself.
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. YourGrandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called itopportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whineabout your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as theyare now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning yourclothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought youwere. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of yourparent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, butlife HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades andthey'll give you chances as MANY TIMES as you want to get the rightanswer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING inreal life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summersoff and very few employers are interested in helping you FINDYOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actuallyhave 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.