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To anyone with kids of any age, here's some advice Bill
>Gates recently gave a speech at Mt. Whitney 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.

 

what date was this speech given? Not to be a naysayer, but this smacks of urban legend-ism.

 

I have no idea. All I know is that it was supposedly given @ Mt. Whitney High School in Visalia,CA.

 

urban legend.

http://www.snopes.com/language/document/liferule.htm

 

Thought so.

 

Regardless, some of it is true.

 

u going to sema mr. nerd?

 

possibly grandpa

 

Suby, are you flyin' or drivin' to Sema? if you are drivin', what day are you leavin'....isnt there a caravan of subies goin'?