tegwini Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Whether you like Bill Gates or not...this is prettycool. Here's some advice Bill Gates recently dished outat a high school speech about 11 things they did notlearn in school. He talks about how feel-good,politically correct teaching has created a fullgeneration of kids with no concept of reality and howthis concept sets them up for failure in the realworld. 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 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice president with car phone, until you earn both. RULE 4 If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure. 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 are. 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. Useful also for UK kids I believe.Regards Tegwini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Nothing to do with Bill Gates, it was written back in 1996 by Charles J Sykes. The original is actualy better:http://urbanlegends.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.ime.usp.br/%7Erbrito/teaching/mack/loo/interessante.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tegwini Posted July 1, 2008 Author Share Posted July 1, 2008 Thanks DickBill Gates was quoting C J Sykes, but relevant - plus ca change ...RegardsTegwinips how do you do French accents on this site? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willow Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 [quote user="tegwini"]ps how do you do French accents on this site?[/quote]Get one of these: http://www.avisoft.co.uk/FrenchChars/TypeFrenchCharacters.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 [quote user="tegwini"]Thanks DickBill Gates was quoting C J Sykes, but relevant - plus ca change ...RegardsTegwinips how do you do French accents on this site?[/quote]Gates never wrote or said this. If he had plagiarised Sykes' article I'm sure we would have heard about it...Read Snopes on the subject.Don't you think it's rather a bitter and unhelpful message?Accents - comme ça. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tegwini Posted July 1, 2008 Author Share Posted July 1, 2008 Thanks WillowI have downloaded it & clicked on 'run' when told to, but where is it? I expected it to appear on the side of the screen, but nothing there. I know how to use the insert facility, but can't see anything has changed - what next ???RegardsTegwini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willow Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 [quote user="tegwini"]Thanks WillowI have downloaded it & clicked on 'run' when told to, but where is it? I expected it to appear on the side of the screen, but nothing there. I know how to use the insert facility, but can't see anything has changed - what next ???RegardsTegwini[/quote]When I saved it I put it on my desk top and from there I put it in my task bar, so when I need it it appears at the top of any page I have open, ready to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WJT Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Regardless of whether he said it or not it appears he took this advice as a kid. [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex H Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 [quote user="Dick Smith"]Don't you think it's rather a bitter and unhelpful message?[/quote]For kids, maybe, for Mr Brown and his mates, perhaps not.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nectarine Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 I don't care whether it's plagiarized or not, but I LOVE Rule 7 and can think of some kids to whom I shall be quoting that shortly ....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tegwini Posted July 2, 2008 Author Share Posted July 2, 2008 Hi DickNot bitter: cynical maybe; realistic - yes; relevant- definitely; useful- obviously, and in my opinion correct on the damage that political correctness is doing to many western countries.RegardsTegwini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tegwini Posted July 2, 2008 Author Share Posted July 2, 2008 Thanks WillowI will have another attempt once back from France, off to France tomorrow - leaving before dawn!RegardsTegwini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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