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    11 things you will not learn in school today

    Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about . 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 agree, pass it on .
    If you can read this - Thank a teacher!

    #2
    I have seen/read this many times and it makes more and more sense every time I read it. It is so true.
    I don't want to go to work, take me wake surfing instead!

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      #3
      He is what the new reality coming into the work force. Makes me want to put on some boots and put it in their asses.

      http://60minutes.yahoo.com/segment/113/millennials
      Last edited by Coach; 05-03-2008, 02:56 PM.
      Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
      Winston Churchill

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        #4
        Also it is not by Bill Gates. Here is the real dirt on where it came from

        http://www.snopes.com/language/document/liferule.asp
        Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
        Winston Churchill

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          #5
          I really tired of crap like that. Some of us on this site just graduated high school not too long ago or are still in highschool. I find that thing as crap. Just another way for the older generation to complain the the younger genertation. I mean if that is true, its the older generations fault, they fu cked it up!

          rank off
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            #6
            geez cp tell us how you really feel

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              #7
              CP3 here is how it works in life. If it apply's you make comments and bitch about it. If it doesn't blow it off. Must suck still living at home and had 100 jobs in the last year. In case you didn't catch the sarcasm and humor, jK. and pull your pants up. :P
              Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
              Winston Churchill

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