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Bill Gates hits the nail on the head, bluntly ( well almost)



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Tefila




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 13 2008, 4:54 pm
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 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 can read this - Thank a teacher!
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yo'ma




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 13 2008, 5:54 pm
LOVED IT!!!!
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Motek




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 13 2008, 6:16 pm
Bill Gates didn't say it:

http://www.snopes.com/language.....e.asp
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louche




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, May 13 2008, 6:55 pm
Motek wrote:
Bill Gates didn't say it:

http://www.snopes.com/language.....e.asp


But as chanoch teller might say--he could have.
Whether he did or he didn't, it's a great essay.
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Tefila




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, May 15 2008, 5:14 pm
Quote:
Whether he did or he didn't, it's a great essay.

My thoughts too now I wonder what the average teen on reading this has to say Tongue Out
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chaylizi




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, May 15 2008, 5:47 pm
whoever wrote it, it's just great
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Akeres Habayis




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jun 18 2008, 11:30 pm
chaylizi wrote:
whoever wrote it, it's just great


so true!!
thanks for sharing
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Imaonwheels




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jun 18 2008, 11:38 pm
It was translated into Hebrew so I printed and gave it to my big boys. Necessary and to the point.
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mimivan




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jun 18 2008, 11:43 pm
Oh, I could SO imagine an Israeli saying these things...(maybe the CEO of Teva?)
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