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Good read.......

This should be posted in all schools and work places...

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.

Published Wednesday, January 23, 2008 8:25 AM by DruidsGlenTarot

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# re: Good read....... @ Wednesday, January 23, 2008 5:40 AM

Dear Joan:

I am not a Bill Gates fan but by gosh he sure makes sense with this article. A lot of parents are having problems with ungrateful kids in this time. This just might set a few of them straight! I am going to share your blog with one of my clients that is just miserable with the antics of her 17 year old daughter. Thanks for the post it is really apt today.

Rosie

Rosalea

# re: Good read....... @ Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:00 AM

great blog! all so true! i like to call it a major realit check for the kids of today.

justaskdrdonna

# re: Good read....... @ Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:36 AM

My children have been reared with a realistic sense of hwo lucky they are. I tell them all the time that they have two parents that love them, it might not be from the same home but they are loved. I tell them that there will always be people who have more and who have less than them, but unless they appreciate what they DO have, they will never be happy, and happiness is a choice. They get to go to Europe once a year, they get to see and share with their family there, they have so much and I tell them that all the time. I also tell them life is NOT fair, and they will not always get what they want, but they need to appreciate what they DO have.
Joan

DruidsGlenTarot

# re: Good read....... @ Wednesday, January 23, 2008 8:22 AM

I agree on some parts and disagree on others.
At the level that you perceive this it's true, but.. if you expand beyond that perception, you will see that there is more to it..

Let me just step back a minute, Many times adults are preoccupied, and buy material "things" to compensate for not being around or emotional connected. In turn children are taught materialistic behaviors.. The Buy me ..give me method..

Life is what we make it, If we teach our children "perception changes" that we can see what we want, we have choices..right? Things do not have to remain as they are..

Children reflect us all the time, that is why we are evolving and growing with them.

I may have said all these statements and agreed with Bill Gates at one time, but.. now I would have to say..we make change happen and with doing so we can create with our children, show them passion and not to feel they have to comform, to an educational standard that is so limiting and flawed in itself.

True success is not found in education or money those are all supplementary.

True success is first knowing who you are,and evolving from there. Than the education means something, and the materialism has purpose.

Just because Bill Gates is worth 50 Billion Dollars, does not mean he is more authorized to give advice to raise a child.

You cannot solve a problem from the level it was created, therfore, you have to "expand" look at the "bigger picture", unfortunately, many are not able to expand their consciousness enough to see this.
I am a advocate for children, my passion and my drive is to "bring awareness" children are pure when they enter this world, we are the ones who contaiminate them. Maybe it is the children that are doing the teaching and we are the ones who are not paying attention.
Because we think we know better :)

Okay...I shared my view :)
Thanks for this blog it shows me alot..lol

GIFTED11

# re: Good read....... @ Wednesday, January 23, 2008 8:45 AM

I agree with you the fact is that people buy their kids what they want, when they want it and then wonder why they're spoiled. It is us that creates the child, we help co-create their perceptions of how relationships work, it is them that has to go on and have relationships to get past all the issues we as parents passed onto them...
I agree that my children do not and should not have to conform or copy others to get ahead in their lives. I did not give Bill credit for these words because of his bank balance but because children have to know that life will not always be fair, in work and in school there are rules that you have to adhere to, and we cannot make things so easy for them that they do not know the value of hard work and respect. Yes we definitely learn from our children, but we also have a duty to guide and teach them, so we have to learn from each other,
Joan