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, its 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!
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JRH said
05:12 PM May 17, 2009
Oh so very true.
Helena said
05:14 PM May 17, 2009
spot on Helena
Cruising Granny said
07:34 PM May 17, 2009
How come we already know this, and now we have to teach it all again to future generations?
What went wrong? When did the standards deteriorate?
Who changed them?
The world now is all about soft options. Someone doesn't want the next generations to "go through what I went through". No one "does it tough" anymore because someone is forever sheltering them.
We learnt from those old standards with discipline and respect. We survived and matured into pretty good, hard working people. So what's wrong with that?
Absolutely nothing.
Technology is a wonderful thing, and using it to learn and communicate is just progress. What we do with the information we learn is up to us.
Bring back the 3 R's and respect and consequences.
Not time out, not grounding. Maybe even the RED PEN to mark assignments and exams. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
They have to work to earn. They have to learn to work to earn. They can't start at the top and work up. Not everyone is a CEO, and if there are no workers the CEO is the boss of nothing. The workers and the customers are what makes a business, successful or otherwise.
Life is a journey, with wins and losses, and nothing happens without our own effort.
The Gnome said
08:16 PM May 17, 2009
Chris, you have such a wonderful way with words. I wish I could express myself as you do. Then I wouldn't come across as a such rambling fool. Luv ya posts.
Greg
TBF said
11:26 PM May 17, 2009
Cruising Granny wrote:
How come we already know this, and now we have to teach it all again to future generations?
Can't teach the new genertion much...they know it all.
Aart
Helena said
06:42 AM May 18, 2009
Saw a sign in a shop once that said "employ a teenager while they know it all" very apt in today`s world. Was talking to a young guy the other day and asked him about work told me there wasn`t anything around I then told him of an ad that I had seen for a dishwasher quote from him "I am not doing that I have been educated for better things". Makes you wonder. Helena.
Bergholt said
10:06 PM May 18, 2009
These words were actually from a book written by author Charles W. Sykes in 1996 and again in 2007. Rules 12, 13 and 14 were also on the list but are not shown on the list attributed to Bill Gates who did not write this.
For the full story and missing rules, see;
http://www.snopes.com/language/document/liferule.asp
Berg
Cruising Granny said
10:48 PM May 18, 2009
Thank you Greg, I'm glad you understand and enjoy it. And you're no rambling fool.
It's good practice for writing my books. Sometimes I even branch out and write poetry.
Writing is my favourite thing, and I find it a great way of getting thoughts out of my head and expressing myself. To each his/her own. Writing just happens to be mine.
The young buggers don't want to compromise and get a job just to earn a living to eat etc, while they're looking for the "career of their dreams".
I don't know about any of you fellow GN's, but I didn't start out doing the job of my dreams, but I sure learnt a lot doing other jobs in the mean time, and even found the job of my dreams when I least expected it, where I least expected to find it. That's life, but these kids are pandered and influenced by ambitious parents who don't want their kids to struggle for a pittance, and want them to do well and succeed at their chosen career from day one.
In an ideal world everyone would succeed like that, but this not being an ideal world, it just might not happen the way they want, in spite of mum and dad's string pulling.
Some choose the dole over "dish bashing", and never get the work ethic, so they never find the dream job. It's all too hard.
Cheers Chris
Helena said
06:13 AM May 19, 2009
In S.A. there are plenty of grape pickers needed hard work I know I did it but as you say granny they would rather sit on the dole today maybe they get too much money on that perhaps food coupons may be the answer instead of cash Helena.
JRH said
02:07 PM May 19, 2009
Cruising Granny wrote:
Thank you Greg, I'm glad you understand and enjoy it. And you're no rambling fool. It's good practice for writing my books. Sometimes I even branch out and write poetry. Writing is my favourite thing, and I find it a great way of getting thoughts out of my head and expressing myself. To each his/her own. Writing just happens to be mine.
The young buggers don't want to compromise and get a job just to earn a living to eat etc, while they're looking for the "career of their dreams". I don't know about any of you fellow GN's, but I didn't start out doing the job of my dreams, but I sure learnt a lot doing other jobs in the mean time, and even found the job of my dreams when I least expected it, where I least expected to find it. That's life, but these kids are pandered and influenced by ambitious parents who don't want their kids to struggle for a pittance, and want them to do well and succeed at their chosen career from day one. In an ideal world everyone would succeed like that, but this not being an ideal world, it just might not happen the way they want, in spite of mum and dad's string pulling. Some choose the dole over "dish bashing", and never get the work ethic, so they never find the dream job. It's all too hard. Cheers Chris
I cannot remember who said it or where I heard it but some wise person once said
"Find a job you love and you will never work a day in your life"
Well to find that job one may have to try quite a large number of jobs in the meantime and I don't think many of our youth will ever find it.
Basil Faulty said
02:25 PM May 20, 2009
As we are looking after our 34 year old son who is recovering from surgery and our house has gone back on the market I have put a sign on his bedroom door;
This room is occupied by a Dissabled Son Inclusion of him in the sale is negotiable. Please ignore the mess!!!
Basil Faulty said
02:31 PM May 20, 2009
Cruising Granny wrote:
How come we already know this, and now we have to teach it all again to future generations? What went wrong? When did the standards deteriorate? Who changed them? The world now is all about soft options. Someone doesn't want the next generations to "go through what I went through". No one "does it tough" anymore because someone is forever sheltering them. We learnt from those old standards with discipline and respect. We survived and matured into pretty good, hard working people. So what's wrong with that? Absolutely nothing. Technology is a wonderful thing, and using it to learn and communicate is just progress. What we do with the information we learn is up to us. Bring back the 3 R's and respect and consequences. Not time out, not grounding. Maybe even the RED PEN to mark assignments and exams. Tsk, tsk, tsk. They have to work to earn. They have to learn to work to earn. They can't start at the top and work up. Not everyone is a CEO, and if there are no workers the CEO is the boss of nothing. The workers and the customers are what makes a business, successful or otherwise. Life is a journey, with wins and losses, and nothing happens without our own effort.
Yes Granny I admit that I am one of the causes of the collapse of society as we knew it. Too many times have I got my kids out of their own self induced strife at my expense, too many times have I made sure that they were "cumfortable" and did not have to go what I went through. I think standards really have been going down hill for decades but it was the 80's that killed it when the "GREED IS GOOD" crowd got credibilty.
Cruising Granny said
09:38 PM May 20, 2009
Yes, the greedy are still out there, setting the worst possible example to the young we have ever seen. Certainly in my short 59 years, I don't recall anyone getting such huge salary packages (wages) for the least amount of work. It's the grunts on the ground floor who make them rich.
Who says the CEO's or Board members are more highly skilled or talented than Fred Blogs down the street, who's washing footpaths for a quid, until his "dream" job comes along?
Never underestimate the garbo and the cleaner. They could have a qualification in some great sector, but prefer the relaxed work place.
Even councillors in Local Government get "allowances" during their time on the council, when traditionally they are supposed to be volunteers.
It's all about reward for effort these days, rather then commitment for community.
No such thing as the old "love job" anymore.
I guess I can't relate to having someone support me, except my dad who may have had a hand in me getting my first job. I got where I am on my own, by sheer effort, guts and determination, and maybe stubbornness. Not too many stints on the dole between jobs.
No silver spooner here. Just a crippled, fat, old lady busting her a...s, within her capabilities, to earn a few extra bucks to prop up the diesel fund to keep on nomadding.
I didn't have a family to ask. But here I am, a survivor, an achiever, and grateful for what i have and what I achieved. And I'm grateful for everyday I can put my feet on the floor, hear the birds each morning, and sit down to a wholesome meal. It's a good life, if you don't weaken. Cheers Chris
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, its 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!
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Aart
"Find a job you love and you will never work a day in your life"
Well to find that job one may have to try quite a large number of jobs in the meantime and I don't think many of our youth will ever find it.
As we are looking after our 34 year old son who is recovering from surgery and our house has gone back on the market I have put a sign on his bedroom door;
This room is occupied by a Dissabled Son
Inclusion of him in the sale is negotiable.
Please ignore the mess!!!
Yes Granny I admit that I am one of the causes of the collapse of society as we knew it. Too many times have I got my kids out of their own self induced strife at my expense, too many times have I made sure that they were "cumfortable" and did not have to go what I went through.
I think standards really have been going down hill for decades but it was the 80's that killed it when the "GREED IS GOOD" crowd got credibilty.