Here's some advice Bill Gates recently dished out at a high school
speech
> about 11 things they did not learn in school. He talks about how
feel-good,
> politically correct teaching has created a full generation of kids with
no
> concept of reality and how this concept sets 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 40 thousand dollars 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. He
doesn't
> have tenure.
>
>
> 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 are. 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.
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