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Bill Gates' 11 things no one will teach you in school - cframe - 01-30-2010
I was recently on a college campus with my daughter and ran across this poster ... we both got a good laugh at his profound insight:
Bill Gates on 11 things no one will teach or learn at school --
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 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.
Bill Gates' 11 things no one will teach you in school - JanusthePhoenix - 01-30-2010
I agree with every single one of those except number 5. Flipping burgers is indeed beneath me, just like it was when I graduated High School. So instead I joined the Navy and cleaned toilets in exotic locations around the world. Obviously, I showed him.
Bill Gates: 40,000,000,000
Me: 1
Score one for me, but I'm still catching up. Anyway, good post!
Bill Gates' 11 things no one will teach you in school - ShotoJuku - 01-30-2010
GREAT STUFF!! :iagree:
Bill Gates' 11 things no one will teach you in school - taylor - 01-30-2010
ShotoJuku Wrote:GREAT STUFF!! :iagree:
I agree with #11 "be nice to nerds", which is why I carry my coke bottle glasses and my pocket protector everywhere. Now I just wish I was smart.
Bill Gates' 11 things no one will teach you in school - categ - 01-30-2010
JanusthePhoenix Wrote:I agree with every single one of those except number 5. Flipping burgers is indeed beneath me, just like it was when I graduated High School. So instead I joined the Navy and cleaned toilets in exotic locations around the world. Obviously, I showed him.
Bill Gates: 40,000,000,000
Me: 1
Score one for me, but I'm still catching up. Anyway, good post!
lol, rooting for ya!
Bill Gates' 11 things no one will teach you in school - Elizabeth - 02-06-2010
Haha, I love this!!
Bill Gates' 11 things no one will teach you in school - jadechow - 02-06-2010
This is awesome! I especially love number 8. Totally hit the nail on the head. But, hey, he's Bill Gates - guess that just comes with the territory.
Bill Gates' 11 things no one will teach you in school - 15%Luck - 02-06-2010
He's dead right.
Thankfully I never went to a public school but I have dealt with public school kids in Boy Scouts and they are (many of them, not all of them) some of the most depressing glimpses of our future you will ever see.
No. 1 is my favorite:hurray:
Bill Gates' 11 things no one will teach you in school - rickyjo - 02-09-2010
Ha, clean toilets in exotic locations :roflol: but are you kidding Janus? In this economy there are no honest jobs below my dignity if I was unemployed!
Besides I never understood ripping on fast food (I'm referring to people in general, not Janus), I worked at a solid performing fast food store and it was one of the harder jobs I've had, and if a job requires significant effort it's dignified in my book. Definitely more difficult than fixing computers (I spend most of my time waiting for windows to reload or running scans or finding software, etc, etc). I've gained 15 pounds since I got my certs and quit fast food (and then I was eating two meals of pure heart failure a day).
As for public schools, I went to a private and public school and at least the kids in public schools knew how to take care of themselves and interact with the real world--the private school kids were spoiled (more of them got A grades, but only because their parents were monetarily invested and grounded them for Bs). The public school kids may not have the income later in life, but I would rather live or work with the average public school kid than private school kid any day. Although this is sampling from a whole three total schools I attended in high school a handful of years ago. I'll be the first to admit my opinion is skewed.
Cheers!
Bill Gates' 11 things no one will teach you in school - ideafx - 02-16-2010
There's one thing Mr. Gates forgot to mention that is definitely not taught in schools:
How to steal the idea for a graphical operating system and mouse from your competitor.