JoeyRamone 0 #1 January 21, 2004 To anyone with kids of any age, here's some advice 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #2 January 21, 2004 Actually you can see the whole list of things that he really did'nt say here: http://www.snopes.com/language/document/liferule.htm Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyyhi 0 #3 January 21, 2004 That is SOOOOO absolutely true. . . Kids don't learn ANY real life stuff in school these days. When my son started little league, they didn't even keep score at the game. . .how stupid is that. . . I am sorry but the real world keeps score and taking competition and real life out of the schools just sets our kids up for failure. . .bravo Bill Gates for putting it out there in front of the kids that need it. . .________________________________________ Take risks not to escape life… but to prevent life from escaping. ~ A bumper sticker at the DZ FGF #6 Darcy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeyRamone 0 #4 January 21, 2004 Still some great points.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DShiznit 0 #5 January 21, 2004 Bill Gates didn't say that, an author put that in one of his books.... <-- has read most of Snopes.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,174 #6 January 21, 2004 QuoteActually you can see the whole list of things that he really did'nt say here: http://www.snopes.com/language/document/liferule.htm It really doesn't matter who said it, it's still true!... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #7 January 21, 2004 Ha! He didn't say all that - BUT! [sarcasm]It is still very very very possibly, well, kinda, almost true, if it's ok with you, I mean - I wouldn't want to offend anyone, you know. Sorry to bother you.[sarcasm] There is a "Reality show" out that chronicles the lives of some teenagers in the real world trying to get jobs and such - I caught about 20 minutes of 1 episode - I was so discusted with it I couldn't bring myself to watch any more of it. I am sure that, in alot of cases, it was a true show of what is to come for the youth of today - Sad really. Competition Builds the fundimentals of REAL LIFE. Compete or be left to watch those that do. The little sarcasm above is what it will come to if we keep going like we are.I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WrongWay 0 #8 January 21, 2004 He didn't write this, so I still hate him. Wrong Way D #27371 Mal Manera Rodriguez Cajun Chicken Ø Hellfish #451 The wiser wolf prevails. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
StevePhelps 0 #9 January 21, 2004 QuoteHe didn't write this, so I still hate him. Then you ought to love my cartoon for Wednesday. You may have to read a few previous 'toons to get the drift. cartoon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ian84 0 #10 January 21, 2004 Atta boy Billy G. Just what I was thinking. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
QuickDraw 0 #11 January 21, 2004 Still....regardless who wrote it, it should be ingrained into every child from the day they start school. man...am i really saying that ? -- Hope you don't die. -- I'm fucking winning Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkyDolphin 0 #12 January 21, 2004 Even though we've already established that he didn't say this, I would like to add that having been witness to countless numbers of Bill Gates' speaches, this stuff doesn't even remotely sound like something he would say. Rhonda Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
