Bill Gates, the well-known "World's Wealthiest Man", must have spent some time considering this list before he gave
a recent speech to some high school students about... "10 Things You Will Not Learn In School".
Apparently his words were intended to help the students to understand How "feel-good, politically-correct" teachings
can help to create a Generation of kids with little concept of reality and how this concept could easily 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: