The Incredible Bill Gates

 

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 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 chances 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.