From memail, Bill Gates advice

For those of you that haven't seen it, hope you enjoy it. Richard

Bill Gates' Advice
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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 teaching has created a full generation of kids with no
concept of reality and how this concept sets 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 40 thousand dollars 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. 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.

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 are. 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.

I sure do like his rules. Every high school should have these rules visibly posted for all students to study and hopefully learn from.

Good post. Thanks Richard.

Eliz.