Perspective of bill gates - brilliant

~ Bill Gates ~ 
This should be posted in every school or kid's bedroom .

Love him or hate him , he sure hits the nail on the head with this!

Bill Gates gave a speech at a High School about 
eleven (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 . . 



If you can read this . . . Thank a Teacher . 
If you can read this in English . . . Thank a Soldier! 
And for life and everything else you have . . . Thank God!