Some Advice From Bill Gates
To
anyone with kids of any age, or anyone who has ever been a kid, here's some
advice Bill Gates recently dished out in a high school speech about 11 things
they did not and will not learn in school. He talked about how "feel-good,
politically correct" teaching has created a generation of kids with no
concept of reality and how this has set them up for failure in the real world.
You may want to pass this on to all the young people in your address book.
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 $40,000 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 are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your
parents' 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.
and
finally ...