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red states rule
05-11-2011, 04:36 PM
Got this in an email at work and I was surprised




Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about eleven (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 doesn'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

Kathianne
05-11-2011, 04:47 PM
That's really old, but good. However, not Gates that gave it:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/schoolrules.asp

red states rule
05-11-2011, 04:50 PM
That's really old, but good. However, not Gates that gave it:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/schoolrules.asp

Thanks Kat - I will pass on your link on to my co-worker :salute:

fj1200
05-11-2011, 07:00 PM
Recently? Car phone? Red flag?

SpidermanTUba
05-12-2011, 10:53 AM
Recently? Car phone? Red flag?Yeah really. Television? What's that? Is that that thingie that gets video from the cable coming out the wall?

gabosaurus
05-12-2011, 12:07 PM
At least Apple HQ wasn't under attack while Gates was speaking... :p

KarlMarx
05-12-2011, 09:26 PM
Charlie Sheen should read that list... especially the part about "television is not real life" with a couple of additions... like...

Being a middle aged junkie is not cool, it's pathetic.

Just because you make a million dollars an episode doesn't mean that you're exempt from the laws of the land and of nature. Eventually, you're going to wind up broke, in prison, or dead.

Hanging around with high priced prostitutes does not mean you're a stud, it means you're a fool with too much money and too much time on your hands.... try using your other head to think with for a change.