OT: I sure agree with this

Posted by Dan in Ore on May 25, 2006 at 05:02:26 from (12.108.20.240):

Much of this I have said for a long time. Just got this in an e-mail from a dear friend.

Bill Gates" High School Address

To anyone with kids of any age, here"s some advice. 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!
If you are reading it in English-Thank a soldier !!

Replies:

• Re: OT: I sure agree with this jubilee johnny 08:10:02 05/25/06 (0)
• Re: OT: I sure agree with this Can Owerms 07:12:49 05/25/06 (0)
• Re: OT: I sure agree with this Dan in Ore 06:56:03 05/25/06 (0)
• Re: OT: I sure agree with this bill in western ny 06:36:37 05/25/06 (1)
  • Re: OT: I sure agree with this bill in western ny 06:40:11 05/25/06 (0)
• Re: OT: I sure agree with this Hurryin_Hoosier 05:56:00 05/25/06 (0)
• Re: OT: I sure agree with this hayray 05:35:53 05/25/06 (0)
• Re: OT: I sure agree with this Dave 2N 05:31:03 05/25/06 (0)
• Re: OT: I sure agree with this jubilee johnny 05:21:16 05/25/06 (0)

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