[mso] Fw: The Truth about Life


Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with 
this! 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 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 parents' 
generation,
try de-lousing 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!
If you are reading it in English -thank a soldier!

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