mullumby Loc: Australia

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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 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.

If you agree , pass it on.
If you can read this - Thank a teacher!

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Shellback Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas

This is not from Bill Gates. It’s an excerpt from the book “Dumbing Down our Kids” by educator Charles Sykes. It is a list of eleven things you did not learn in school and directed at high school and college grads.

mullumby Loc: Australia

Well thank ya shellback.

raymondh Loc: Walker, MI

Amazing how liberals and the mainstream media have colluded to break every one!

dfran Loc: Dallas, Pa

Great set of rules, but definitely not from Bill Gates! Actually no one really knows who first wrote these, but they know it wasn't Bill Gates! Well worth passing on though, I just shared them on Facebook, thanks for posting,

richosob Loc: Lambertville, MI

That's what's wrong with many of these kids, they think the world owes them a living and then when they find out that it's your own responsibility to do that they start this protesting. They will have to learn the hard way.

Rich

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

imagesintime Loc: small town, mid-America

You can tell this list has been around quite awhile. Look at number 3...a car phone??