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 ‘til 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

Oops. Guess I shoulda 'Snopes'd' it first.

Good stuff, regardless.

I was about to say, that we have had this list taped up in our college library for a couple of years now.
I didn't realise that Bill Gates said it.

Wait - he didn't, did he?

All good food for thought, except this . This is what I hate about chain letters. The message might be so profound it will bring you to tears, but it will end with a biased moronic sentence like that. No, if we lost to the Germans in WW2, we would not be speaking German. No, if we lost to the Vietnamese, we would not be speaking Vietnamese. It's just foolish. The last time I checked, Germans are still speaking German, Korean's are still speaking Korean, and Iraqi's are still speaking Arabic.

I get the whole patriotic thing, but to me statements like that just devalue what soldiers really do.

thats cool, your kewl man-Mr.and Mrs. Smith- the part wher he pretends to be drunk and sees buddies gun

that was a really good find