Superb Bill Gates comments

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Posted by: " ankur undale " ankur_undale

Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:55 pm (PDT)

 

These are good comments. However, these are not from Bill gates.

Please read below:

 

According to this email, the enclosed eleven " common sense " rules for

life were voiced to high school students during a recent speech by

Microsoft's Bill Gates. Many parents and older people are likely to

agree with the ideas expressed in this set of " rules " , dubbed " 11

Things Kids Will Not Learn in School " .

 

However, the rules were neither written nor spoken by Bill Gates, they

did not originate as a high school speech, and they are not at all

recent. In fact, the current incarnation of these rules is a somewhat

abridged version of an original piece that was penned by author

Charles J. Sykes. The full version was printed in the San Diego Union

Tribune on September 19, 1996 and in a number of other publications

since then. Sykes is the author of " Dumbing Down Our Kids " , " 50 Rules

Kids Won't Learn in School " , and several other books.

 

Superb Bill Gates Comments

 

This should be posted in all schools and work places

 

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 can read this - Thank a teacher!