***NOTE HOW OLD THIS IS BY SOME OF THE THINGS BEING SAID AND HOW MUCH MORE SCREWED WE ARE NOW LOL*** To anyone with kids of any age, here's some advice. Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not & will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality & how this concept set them up for failure in the real world. Love him or hate him, he sure hit the nail on the head with this! 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 & 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 & losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades & 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 & 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 & go to jobs. Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
:rofl: at rule #11...the rest are very good. My personal favorite is #1...whenever my kids tell me "it's not fair" my exact response is, "Life's not fair. The sooner you learn to deal with it, the better off you are going to be." They don't like that answer, but someday they will...probably when they use it on there own kids. :rofl:
damm those are good!!!! love 1,2,8,10, and 11 i wish i could get rule 10 through my wifes head so she can stop watching those stupid so called reality tv shows (the hills, shot at love, paris hiltion, ect.) and i can get back to True TVs most shocking police chases and animal planet!
anyone want to question him for being a college dropout? I think that is some of the most sound advice you can give someone ... good for him i saw that years ago too .. thanks for bringing it back Stevo
its one thing to drop out of college its another to drop out of a place like Yale, Harvard, Georgetown ect... hahahaha just think of what he coulda done had he stayed in school...he could be a MILLIONAIRE!!!!!!!
there are lots of people with lots of framed pieces of paper that wont make as much in their life as he makes in a year LOL
