Bill Gates recently speech at a High School

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! To anyonewith kids of any age, here's some advice. Bill Gates recently gave aspeech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learnin school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachingscreated a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how thisconcept set th em 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 expectyou 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 bea 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 andlistening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So beforeyou save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent'sgeneration, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HASNOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'llgive you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. Thisdoesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off andvery few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do thaton 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!
 

[wangzi]

This is not from Bill Gates. It's an excerpt from the book "Dumbing Down our Kids" by educator Charles Sykes. It is a list of eleven things you did not learn in school and directed at high school and college grads.

"soldier" is one of my friend's nick name. he pass it to me.:)

[julian]

If you are reading it in English -Thank a soldier!???


can u tell me what that means??
send me a mail about it, thanks...

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