candygirl Posted April 9, 2007 Report Posted April 9, 2007 Subject: Bill Gates speech This should be posted in all schools. 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 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.
NBVegita Posted April 9, 2007 Report Posted April 9, 2007 People today are such wusses. They deserve to get hit hard with real life. But even in real life we've become overly politically correct so not even that is a hard slap anymore.
Samapico Posted April 9, 2007 Report Posted April 9, 2007 lol @ rule 11... Something tells me people were hard on little Bill back in the day... If all kids learned these rules, the world would be a better place today...
PoLiX Posted April 9, 2007 Report Posted April 9, 2007 Back in Jr High, we we're required to take a this one tech class, forget what it was called. But the teacher had a video we all watched called "Revenge of the Nerds". All the guys we're rich, billionaires, !@#$%^&* one was in a Hot Tub talking a lot of the time. Was funny to think that that kid who was sitting there playing with his calculator would some day maybe be my boss.
Samapico Posted April 9, 2007 Report Posted April 9, 2007 Back in Jr High, we we're required to take a this one tech class, forget what it was called. But the teacher had a video we all watched called "Revenge of the Nerds". All the guys we're rich, billionaires, !@#$%^&* one was in a Hot Tub talking a lot of the time. Was funny to think that that kid who was sitting there playing with his calculator would some day maybe be my boss.http://www.fox.co.uk/content/fox_films/10767/images/HE_5_RevengeOfNerds1.jpg
PoLiX Posted April 9, 2007 Report Posted April 9, 2007 Nope, not that one. This one was a do!@#$%^&*entary. Great movie though.
Samapico Posted April 9, 2007 Report Posted April 9, 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Nerds
PoLiX Posted April 9, 2007 Report Posted April 9, 2007 yes, was just about to post that. That was it.
rootbear75 Posted April 10, 2007 Report Posted April 10, 2007 bill gates actually dropped out of school Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.and yes.. this is true... i hope you all enjoy working for me
Cancer+ Posted April 10, 2007 Report Posted April 10, 2007 That was actually posted in one of my classrooms in High School. Revenge of the Nerds, movie not do!@#$%^&*entary, was a good movie. ha.
X`terrania Posted April 10, 2007 Report Posted April 10, 2007 It is true.. and chances r one of those delicious nerds is gay.. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
11___________ Posted April 11, 2007 Report Posted April 11, 2007 I knew one day, one day i would put my mark on Bill Gates, he got his number of ideas from my name.
»Blocks Posted April 11, 2007 Report Posted April 11, 2007 Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.and yes.. this is true... i hope you all enjoy working for me http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m222/legoblocks/misc/4daf9837.jpg You aren't even close to being a nerd.
Slipped Posted April 11, 2007 Report Posted April 11, 2007 Yeah, this has been around a while. One of my professors actually has it printed off and posted in her room.
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