Oct
12
Bill Gates
12. October 2006 - 19:39
This can be read at the Dean's office door.
Feb.19, 2004
BILL GATES' SPEECH TO MT. WHITNEY HIGH SCHOOL in Visalia,CA.
(Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this!)
To anyone with kids of any age, here's some advice. 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 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 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 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.
- Isabell S's blog
- 904 reads
13. October 2006 - 7:56
Real words!
I am sure lot's of parents appreciate that
- reply
»13. October 2006 - 12:43
..and you are
...and you are right;)
- reply
»13. October 2006 - 8:58
Bill becomes adult
For me it is interesting to see how Bill is changing.
Not in a bad way.
In the nineties he wanted to rule the world with microsoft products and "informations at your fingertips".
He has incredible "Big Brother" ideas.
Now it seems to me that he learned all that lessons above!
(And the new big brother will become Google).
I hope that the microsoft managers read the sentences too.
Usually they try to convince the people from the opposite of these sentences.
- reply
»13. October 2006 - 10:56
However
you may think about such people like Bill Gates. He is a rich public person and therefore in some ways an idol for some people. Therefore he takes his responsibility in a good way.
- reply
»