Bill Gates

Bill Gates recently dished out at a high schoolspeech about 11 things they did not learn in school.
He talks about how feel-good politically correctteachings created a full generation of kids with noconcept of reality and how this concept set them upfor failure in the real world. HE SAID:

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 somethingBEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a yearright out of high school. You won't be avice-president with a car, phone, until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait tillyou get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity.Your grandparents had a different word for burgerflipping - 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 payingyour bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to youtalk about how cool you are. So before you save therain 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 winnersand losers but life has not. In some schools they haveabolished failing grades and they'll give you as manytimes as you want to get the right answer. Thisdoesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING inreal life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don'tget summers off and very few employers are interestedin helping you find yourself. Do that on your owntime.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real lifepeople actually have to leave the coffee shop and goto jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end upworking for one.