This should be taught in every school..

[Darwinian]

This should be posted in every school and every home.



Love him or hate him , he sure hits the nail on the head with this!

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 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.

If you agree, pass it on.
If you don't agree stick your head in the sand and take a deep breath!


If you can read this -Thank a teacher! If you can read this in English thank a soldier!!!

[leo-rcc]

I agree with his rules 100%.

[fr0d0]

"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."

LMAO @ that one. Nice one Bill

"If you can read this in English thank a soldier!!!"

erm.. wha?

[Edwardo Piet]

I didn't get that bit either.

I liked rule 11 lol.

EvF

[Rhage]

"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."


This should be taught in kindergarten.

[Minimalist]

Not written by Gates, however.

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

[leo-rcc]

Does it really matter? The rules still apply.

[binny]

That's funny. I watched George Carlin last night and he did a similar bit in his act. Also I heard Bill Gates is in the spectrum. Doesn't surprise me.

[Zhalentine]

A couple years ago my AP chemistry teacher told us a story about rule number 11. He told his regular science class to be nice to the nerds because they'll be your boss some day and then he said never mind, most of the nerds won't be managers at Walmart.

[chatpilot]

"If you can read this -Thank a teacher! If you can read this in English thank a soldier!!!"

Clearly a reference to how we won our independence and are not ruled by any foreign nation. We are not a common wealth or subject to the Queen or the any dictators or foreign rulers. We are the United States of America and our primary language is English and we have our soldiers to thank for those things. Soldiers are credited with giving us all of the freedoms we enjoy today at the price of life and blood.