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 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.
he'd yell at u anyway won't he? its all a matter of whether u want to accept the way stuff works in life... yep life's never fair y is it that cars r sooo much cheaper there =(
No. 11 really is funny, Look at Bill Gates I guess, those who called him a nerd when he was young must be so embarrassed of themselves
sooo true...i wish some of the kids these days would actually believe it though. especially the parents points. instead of figuring out what went wrong with their lives, they just blame the rents.
yup, all true hahaha, particular the nerd one, and the reality check one hahaha, and the grade one, you dont get as many tries as you do in school. woooo what a speech haha
Very true, thanks dann! I guess is all just says, don't take things for granted. and that the real society isn't the same as school (obviously).
