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Bill Gates’ High School Speech
Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school.
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.
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November 14th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
This is not from Bill Gates. It’s an excerpt from the book “Dumbing Down our Kids” by educator Charles Sykes. It is a list of eleven things you did not learn in school and directed at high school and college grads.
Erroneously attributed to B. Gates by emailers…
November 14th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
The fact that there are no details is a dead giveaway too: “recently”, but when? “at a High School”, but which one? If the details were provided, it wouldn’t ensure that the claim was true, but the claim could be confirmed or denied.
November 16th, 2007 at 12:27 am
Welcome to the internet. If you look, I’ll bet you can even find this attributed to Genghis Kahn.
Is this “Photoshopped”?
November 16th, 2007 at 12:37 am
Rule 12: nothing on the internet can be trusted.
November 16th, 2007 at 2:45 am
@Lucas - Ghengis Kahn was a wise man (or was he a line of men?)
November 16th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
I was so shock! Bill did not come up with this? I call this office at Microsoft to verify this and they told me he doesn’t work there any more. Whats going on?