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[old] Bayko · Post by **[old] Bayko** » January 18th, 2005, 10:03 am

To anyone with kids of any age (or anyone who IS a kid 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. Bill Gates High School Address to MT. Whitney High School in Visalia, CA. 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 de-lousing 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 divideded 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 agree - Pass it on. If you can read this - Thank a teacher! If you are reading it in English -Thank a soldier!!

[old] PaulS · Post by **[old] PaulS** » January 18th, 2005, 10:53 am

Hear here.... The fount (font) of all knowlege...

[old] dadams · Post by **[old] dadams** » January 18th, 2005, 11:03 am

Sometimes Billy is good for something.

[old] Daren C · Post by **[old] Daren C** » January 18th, 2005, 12:39 pm

If you are reading it in English -Thank a soldier!! It'd be difficult to read it in anything else.

[old] psaint · Post by **[old] psaint** » January 18th, 2005, 4:48 pm

This has been around for awhile. Urban legend. Check out <a href='http://www.snopes.com/language/document/liferule.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.snopes.com/language/document ... r> This list is the work of Charles J. Sykes, author of the book Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, Or Add. (The list has appeared in newspapers, although not necessarily in this book.) Many versions of this list omit the last three rules: Rule No. 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you're out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for "expressing yourself" with purple hair and/or pierced body parts. Rule No. 13: You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven't seen one of your peers at room temperature lately. Rule No. 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school's a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now. You're welcome.

[old] Bayko · Post by **[old] Bayko** » January 18th, 2005, 5:04 pm

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'>QUOTE (psaint @ Jan 18 2005, 08:48 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>This has been around for awhile. Urban legend. Check out <a href='http://www.snopes.com/language/document/liferule.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.snopes.com/language/document ... r> This list is the work of Charles J. Sykes, author of the book Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, Or Add. (The list has appeared in newspapers, although not necessarily in this book.) Many versions of this list omit the last three rules: Rule No. 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you're out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for "expressing yourself" with purple hair and/or pierced body parts. Rule No. 13: You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven't seen one of your peers at room temperature lately. Rule No. 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school's a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now. You're welcome. </td></tr></table> Thanks for the clarification. I'll try not to take the prize from The Atlanta Journal and Constitution by attributing it wrongly a second time. And I'll email back to sender the correct source. It is even better in its entirety. Hats off to Charles J. Sykes. Rick

[old] gorow9 · Post by **[old] gorow9** » January 18th, 2005, 9:45 pm

I'm in highschool and I think that's a good list... I copied it into my email and forewarded it to my friends... unfortunatly a good dose of reality could do a lot of people good. ~Sara

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