11 Good rules

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canada87

@canada87

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Posted: 19 years ago

Here's some advice Bill Gates 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 vice president with a car phone, until you earn both.

Rule 4

* If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He or she 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 rainforest from the parasites of your parents' 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 be working for one someday.

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Posted: 19 years ago

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Rule 11

* Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll be working for one someday.

Hey!!!
Anyways, Thanks for sharing 😉

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neha9

@neha9

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Posted: 19 years ago

Thanks for the post... i love the last one... 😡
Every kid who thinks they are "cool" yet not doing well in schools, making fun of the students doing better need to read that last one 😡