September 6, 2007
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ADVICE FROM BILL GATES
Bill Gates
recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and
will not learn in school. He talked 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 agree, pass it on.If you can read this - Thank a teacher!
If you are reading it in English -Thank a
soldier
Comments (4)
That's very good advice, Paul. Couldn't have put it better myself- and I suspect you couldn't either ! This should be posted up in big letters in every school and college common room.
I believe every word Bill Gates said, and I try to practice these myself (because I don't belong to the present generation -- I am 66 years old)! But Bill Gates did not say these things recently. I read these quite a while ago. But you did the right thing, sir. Pass these on. May be some kid some day will wake up somewhere and follow Mr. Gate's advice. In my time, in my country, we had to LEARN things before we could graduate from high school. Just attending a school for 12 years did not qualify anybody for graduation!!!
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Well , well seen and well said ! It was my own education for most parts but not completely .All the people cannot be a Bill Gates !
In friendship
Michel
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