Phylosophy

[martymas]

perhaps he isnt the a-hole many portray him as

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 sets 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!

[JDoors]

I'm not sure that's actually Gates, but that doesn't change the fact that I agree with it!

[Pete_C]

Yes, many people villify Bill Gates; but the reality is that he is a realist who succeeded at what he wanted to do far beyond anyone's wildest dreams.

He understood not only computers but people, his company did not design the best operating system; they designed one which people would embrace and decided to worry about improving it later.

He makes a great point; whether you blame political correctness or religious conservatives sheltering their children from things which they view as dangerous to their beliefs; one of the biggest problems American children face is a warped view of reality and lack of knowledge of the real world. Protectionism does not work either at a family , community, national , or global level. What works is knowledge and understanding of reality .