I happen to agree with this guy for once!!

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 NO T 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.



Oh my lord how true is all of this my friends! I would send my kids to the bill gates school of life if i could lol xx:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :laugh:

I also agree with him ..it is true what he says:)

In the politically correct namby pamby generation we are raising i fear if we ever really go to war again we would fall on our face ducky. We have created kids with no sense of anything other than self!!

As a wise man Might once have said......Only one individual has the ability...the judgement....the purpose....and the willpower...to improve your life....YOU xxxx :blink:

tonypark wrote:

As a wise man Might once have said......Only one individual has the ability...the judgement....the purpose....and the willpower...to improve your life....YOU xxxx :blink:

hear hear!

I raise them tough in my home believe me tony i did not mean im raising em wrong. It,s what i see when i look at the kids she is in school with. It,s not an issue for boys bullying the girls. Does anyone kick their arses?? No they go to bloody mediation if you ever did. And my lauren had to instigate it too. You cannout be told to compete in school at all now. I know they think im a pushy parent but i want best for her and not leaving school with no other aim than a coucil flat and a baby!!

TheLadyMagenta wrote:

I raise them tough in my home believe me tony i did not mean im raising em wrong. It,s what i see when i look at the kids she is in school with. It,s not an issue for boys bullying the girls. Does anyone kick their arses?? No they go to bloody mediation if you ever did. And my lauren had to instigate it too. You cannout be told to compete in school at all now. I know they think im a pushy parent but i want best for her and not leaving school with no other aim than a coucil flat and a baby!!

I think i understand what you are trying to say Cat
there is this culture that seems to say to the young genration
dont worry about not puting any effort into learning .because we will not only down grade exams and get you into uni.. you can earn lots of monny in the entertainment side ect
there are winners and losers in the real world and they should be taught the lesson
if you are not clever enough to get into uni or a high paid job as long as you yourself belive you done your best there is no disgrace.. I have more respect and need the workers this goverment belittle they are the backbone of this country and we need them more than overpayed footballers tv presenters modals singers and actors ect ect
imagine no dustbin men no pest controllers no sewage workers and no road sweepers just to name a few what sort of enverment we would be living in :dry:

TheLadyMagenta wrote:

I raise them tough in my home believe me tony i did not mean im raising em wrong. It,s what i see when i look at the kids she is in school with. It,s not an issue for boys bullying the girls. Does anyone kick their arses?? No they go to bloody mediation if you ever did. And my lauren had to instigate it too. You cannout be told to compete in school at all now. I know they think im a pushy parent but i want best for her and not leaving school with no other aim than a coucil flat and a baby!!

Sorry Cat hun....I agree with every word and feeling..I was thinking of someone else when making comment...If you get my drift xxxx

absolutely both of you ducky and tony. This worlds becoming shallower and made so by the very people dertermined to abuse it for any means possible. i get you tony x

Proven fact (according to latest survey results)...
it's the Parent's fault.

he he

HMMM not sure if it is just the parents fault, people,
I mean look at the way kids behave now, if I had dared talk to a teacher the way kids talk to them now I would of been at the rectors office, a wallop with a cane, a letter home n got hell for it.
If any thing happens now it's, aww the poor little lamb, what could be making them behave like that? maybe they have problems at home? etc etc, when it's a simple case of they have no respect for their elders and have no clue what discipline is!!!!!
The same busy bodies that took away a parents right to smack are now complaining when the kids are hanging around on street corners, they are on the corners because the parents can't control them cause you stopped them being able to discipline.
I have heard teen kids threatening their parents with the social if they don't let them out or let them do XY or Z. My advice , hand the little dear the phone n offer to dial it for them. Some of them have no clue what side their bread is buttered.

IckleKitty wrote:

HMMM not sure if it is just the parents fault, people,
I mean look at the way kids behave now, if I had dared talk to a teacher the way kids talk to them now I would of been at the rectors office, a wallop with a cane, a letter home n got hell for it.
If any thing happens now it's, aww the poor little lamb, what could be making them behave like that? maybe they have problems at home? etc etc, when it's a simple case of they have no respect for their elders and have no clue what discipline is!!!!!
The same busy bodies that took away a parents right to smack are now complaining when the kids are hanging around on street corners, they are on the corners because the parents can't control them cause you stopped them being able to discipline.
I have heard teen kids threatening their parents with the social if they don't let them out or let them do XY or Z. My advice , hand the little dear the phone n offer to dial it for them. Some of them have no clue what side their bread is buttered.

If my kids had threatened me with the Social Serv,I would have got them a taxi there,times and morals have changed,kids are growing up so fast,who knows who's fault it is,you cannot just blame the parents,there are some really good parents out there who's kids have turned out to be monsters.:ohmy:
I knew Peter Sutcliffe's parents,I also had a lift in his car one night,I thought he was an alright sort of guy,just shows how wrong you can be about people.:blink:<br><br>Post edited by: Dorrie, at: 2009/02/04 11:01