Life

Enjoy all, this is BILL GATES' SPEECH TO MT. WHITNEY HIGH
SCHOOL in Visalia, California. Worthwhile reading for anyone.
Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with
this! To anyone with kids of any age, or anyone who has ever
been a kid, here's some advice. Bill Gates recently dished out
at a high school speech 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.

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 are. 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.