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Bill Gates was supposed to have

Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 11:47 pm
by gmattson
made this speach at a high school graduation. Because I agree with most of the thoughts, I'm posting it: What do you think about each item?GEM
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


! If you a gree, pass it on. ; If you can read this - Thank a teacher! If you are reading it in English -Thank a soldier!!

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 12:11 am
by CANDANeh
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss
My teachers were tougher than my boss. Example
"Please could you maybe take shorter breaks, we have been behind this month."
" Everyone is part of the team, we all have our strenghts"
"Can`t terminate him, he has a family to support"
" Consider it a learning curve..."
" Leo...we look forward to your retirement next year...right? "

No way! I`m dug in
:twisted:

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 12:24 am
by CANDANeh
Agree with all except #4
# 11 well, because of # 4

Re: Bill Gates was supposed to have

Posted: Fri May 12, 2023 1:58 pm
by emattson
In according to the Snopes fact check web site, Bill Gates never gave that quote. Administrators at the Mt. Whitney High School in Visalia, California, said that Bill Gates never gave such a commencement speeches there. He never mentioned it in his book, "Business @ The Speed of Thought".

Charles J. Sykes, the author of the 1996 book "Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, Or Add" created this list and published it in his 2007 book, "50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School: Real-World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education".

Understandable how so many incorrectly thought the list was quoted from Bill Gates. It sounds very much like Bill Gates, being Capitalist friendly, in my humble opinion. A quote sounds more powerful spoken by a celebrity than from a relative unknown.

See:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/some- ... in-school/