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Gary and Kerry


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I got this in an email and thought it was very relavent to  GEN Y

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 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 doesn'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 don't agree stick your head in the sand and take a deep breath!
If you can read this -Thank a teacher!

-- Edited by Gary and Kerry on Saturday 16th of January 2010 07:43:12 PM

-- Edited by Gary and Kerry on Saturday 16th of January 2010 07:43:57 PM

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Oh so very true every kid should have it tattooed on their forehead.

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The List is actually by an author called Sykes, Bill Gates didn't write it, although it doesn't really matter, it makes good sense !

See Snopes link;

http://www.snopes.com/language/document/liferule.asp

-- Edited by Vic41 on Saturday 16th of January 2010 11:07:09 PM

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Don't blame the kids! Blame the nanny-state socialists and PC do-gooders that are putting these ideas into their head!

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jimricho wrote:

Don't blame the kids! Blame the nanny-state socialists and PC do-gooders that are putting these ideas into their head!


DITTO RICHO .

 



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well laid out, put that way we obviously have a problem with society!

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Gary and Kerry wrote:

This should be posted in every school

Starting with the school staff room



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jimricho wrote:

 

Gary and Kerry wrote:

This should be posted in every school

Starting with the school staff room

 


Yep teachers who want to be the students friend instead of teacher.  No discipline.

 



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I have that on my toilet wall in spare toilet have had it for years, heaps of people ask me to copy it for them when they visit. :)

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