Bill Gates: What they don't teach you in school

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 doesn'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. 

Comments

[Slazar]

Great list, While Ann Landers circulated a variation of the first 10 a few times (unattributed), it is mis-attributed to Bill Gates, or at least that's what Snopes reports.

[Elle]

Fair enough - but I don't suppose it really matters who said it first - they're oh so true...
Cheers Elle

[rachel]

these are on the wall at my school, plus a few extra more, and their absolutely true, I'm 13 and kids older than me don't realise that life isn't fair. There's one girl in my class, her mum didn't let her to the mall, so she whined about it all day and to get attention she got a pen lid and used the pointy end to try cut herself =.= i mean, you can't take life too seriously worrying about the future, but if she (plus a few extra people in my class) have that sort of attitude and always be nagging and demanding attention from everyone else, i don't know how shes going to turn out because i know her boss won't have any of it/

[Elle]

Rachel, wow ... you have the best attitude I have come across in a very long time. With an attitude like yours, you will go a very long way. Congratulations - Elle

[Norma Rodriguez]

Parents please read and apply this , your kids will be o.k., and later on life they will be thankful for their parents!!!!!