Hybrid_From_Hell Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 Love him, or hate him, Bill Gates sure hits the nail on the head with this! To kids of all ages, here is some good 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 the 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 it. 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 until 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 parents' generation, try cleaning 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 can read this, thank a teacher! If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier! If you can't read it or don't understand it then you are simply a MORON, or in "New Speak" "Challenged" "ADSL'd" or "Special Needs" whilst there is nothing wrong with this, there is something wrong to make out that there is not a problem with you................ PMSL, hope there are not too may PC readers here Hillbilly eat your heart out Nige Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 my god a nerd & an american nerd at that talking sense! full marks to the bloke, i guess £60billion (or whatever he earned this wk) hasnt taken him totally away from the real world Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
western Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 nice one Nige Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest diesel_jim Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 Rule 1: Life is not fair. Get used to it!Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them. 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 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. or in "New Speak" "Challenged" "ADSL'd" or "Special Needs" Unless you grow up believing Tony B Liar and his cronies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 could ANYONE grow up that dumb? except bush? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pugwash Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 could ANYONE grow up that dumb? except bush? so out of those 11 which are dumb in your opinion? are you a civil servant? [edited to say- have i got the wrong end of the stick here- are you calling the audience dumb? in which case i totally agree with you!] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuko Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 Reality suck, doesn't it! "Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not, and will not, learn in school." I wonder how many of the students actually listened to him and then of those, how many really understood what he was talking about, then how many will actually learn form the man ??? Gotta admit, it was a very good reality speech. Todd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 so out of those 11 which are dumb in your opinion? are you a civil servant? [edited to say- have i got the wrong end of the stick here- are you calling the audience dumb? in which case i totally agree with you!] i was attempt to spread disbelief that anyone would believe Phoney bLiar. the list is good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lara Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 Best assessment of the real world I have ever heard. Bill Gates has my respect. Lara. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FITZ Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 Nige great stuff but not by Bill Gates. It's from the book "Dumbing Down our Kids" by Charles Sykes. http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_b...ates_speech.htm http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/b/billgatesspeech.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FridgeFreezer Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 What Fitz said - it's too damn good to have come from Gates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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