Forum Archive Index - April 2000

["Stuart Allen" <sj.allen@ihug.co.nz>]

I THOUGHT THIS WAS QUITE GOOD.

SOME OF YOU WITH TENAGE KIDS MIGHT LIKE TO SHOW

IT TO THEM.

 

 

I SOUND LIKE MY DAD  :)

 

STUART ALLEN

 

In Bill Gates's message about life for recent high school and college
graduates, he lists 11 things they did not learn in school. He talks about
how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a full 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 40 thousand dollars 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 until you get a boss. He doesn't
have tenure.

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 are. So before you save the rain
forest from the parasites of your parents' 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; 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.