[meteorite-list] [Fwd: top1 ;-)]

From: Walter Sullivan <wsulliva_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:02:31 2004
Message-ID: <3C98A1D7.1060306_at_ix.netcom.com>

>> Bill Gates' Speech ,,,,, Love him or hate him, he sure hits the
>> nail on the Head with this! To anyone with kids of any age, or
>> anyone who has ever been a kid, here's some advice Bill Gates
>> recently dished out at a high school speech about 11 things they did
>> NOT learn in school. He talks about how feel-good politically
>> correct teachings created a full 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 50 thousand dollars 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. He doesn't have tenure.
>>
>> Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your
>> grandparents had a different word for burger flipping, they called
>> it opportunity.
>>
>> Rule6: 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.
>>
>> Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up
>> working for one.
Received on Wed 20 Mar 2002 09:51:03 AM PST