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Bill Gates & his message to kids.


tegwini

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Whether  you like Bill Gates or not...this is pretty
cool. Here's some advice Bill Gates recently dished out
at a high school speech about 11 things they did  not
learn in school. He talks about how  feel-good,
politically correct teaching has  created a full
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 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

 

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[quote user="tegwini"]

Thanks Dick

Bill Gates was quoting C J Sykes,  but relevant - plus ca change ...

Regards

Tegwini

ps how do you do French accents on this site?

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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.

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Thanks Willow

I 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 ???

Regards

Tegwini

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[quote user="tegwini"]

Thanks Willow

I 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 ???

Regards

Tegwini

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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.

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Hi Dick

Not 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.

Regards

Tegwini

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