Bill Gates speech: 11 rules your kids did not and will not learn in school
Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!
Rule 2: The world doesn’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.
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Ambuj Varshney
February 18, 2011 at 12:59 pm
Anuj
February 18, 2011 at 6:36 pm
Rule 12: Khao Peeyo Aish karo (by Anwesha
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anwesha
February 18, 2011 at 6:50 pm
definately they dont teach the 12th one..
ABHAY MAHESHWARI
February 18, 2011 at 7:24 pm
haha
anwesha
February 18, 2011 at 11:11 pm
I like the 11th one
kritika
February 19, 2011 at 2:29 am
me too..90% thats true..
ABHAY MAHESHWARI
February 20, 2011 at 1:10 am
hahaha d 11th one…awesum!!!
Atia
February 20, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Hi,
This thing doesn’t belong to bill gates. So please remove bill gates’ name from this article and give some credit to the original author – “Charles J. Sykes”.
If you look more about this article you will get it somewhere.
In reality this is a part of following article from “San Diego Union-Tribune” published on September 19, 1996.
Some rules kids won’t learn in school
Text By Charles J. Sykes
Printed in San Diego Union Tribune
September 19, 1996
Unfortunately, there are some things that children should be learning in
school, but don’t. Not all of them have to do with academics. As a modest
back-to-school offering, here are some basic rules that may not have found
their way into the standard curriculum.
Rule No. 1: Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teen-ager uses the
phrase, “It’s not fair” 8.6 times a day. You got it from your parents, who
said it so often you decided they must be the most idealistic generation
ever. When they started hearing it from their own kids, they realized Rule
No. 1.
Rule No. 2: The real world won’t care as much about your self-esteem as much
as your school does. It’ll expect you to accomplish something before you
feel good about yourself. This may come as a shock. Usually, when inflated
self-esteem meets reality, kids complain it’s not fair. (See Rule No. 1)
Rule No. 3: Sorry, you won’t make $40,000 a year right out of high school.
And you won’t be a vice president or have a car phone either. You may even
have to wear a uniform that doesn’t have a Gap label.
Rule No. 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait ’til you get a boss. He
doesn’t have tenure, so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he’s
not going to ask you how you feel about it.
Rule No. 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grand-parents
had a different word of burger flipping. They called it opportunity. They
weren’t embarrassed making minimum wage either. They would have been
embarrassed to sit around talking about Kurt Cobain all weekend.
Rule No. 6: It’s not your parents’ fault. If you screw up, you are
responsible. This is the flip side of “It’s my life,” and “You’re not the
boss of me,” and other eloquent proclamations of your generation. When you
turn 18, it’s on your dime. Don’t whine about it, or you’ll sound like a
baby boomer.
Rule No. 7: Before you were born your parents weren’t as boring as they are
now. They got that way paying your bills, cleaning up your room and
listening to you tell them how idealistic you are. And by the way, before
you save the rain forest from the blood-sucking parasites of your parents’
generation, try delousing the closet in your bedroom.
Rule No. 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life
hasn’t. In some schools, they’ll give you as many times as you want to get
the right answer. Failing grades have been abolished and class
valedictorians scrapped, lest anyone’s feelings be hurt. Effort is as
important as results. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance
to anything in real life. (See Rule No. 1, Rule No. 2 and Rule No. 4)
Rule No. 9: Life is not divided into semesters, and you don’t get summers
off. Not even Easter break. They expect you to show up every day. For eight
hours. And you don’t get a new life every 10 weeks. It just goes on and on.
While we’re at it, very few jobs are interesting in fostering your
self-expression or helping you find yourself. Fewer still lead to
self-realization. (See Rule No. 1 and Rule No. 2.)
Rule No. 10: Television is not real life. Your life is not a sitcom. Your
problems will not all be solved in 30 minutes, minus time for commercials.
In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop to go to jobs.
Your friends will not be as perky or pliable as Jennifer Aniston.
Rule No. 11: Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all
could.
Rule No. 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic.
Next time you’re out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his
mouth. That’s what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for “expressing
yourself” with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.
Rule No. 13: You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the
impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is
romantic, you obviously haven’t seen one of your peers at room temperature
lately.
Rule No. 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school’s a
bother, and life is depressing. But someday you’ll realize how wonderful it
was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now.
You’re welcome.
Sarvesh
March 16, 2011 at 2:42 am
thanks for pointing that out. credit must be given to those who have said these individually, but Bill Gates compiled it as his 11 rules!
anwesha
March 16, 2011 at 11:48 am
thanks for the info..but i somehow agree with anwesha..its all about selling ur product ..the real author wasnt able to sell it…i guess?
ABHAY MAHESHWARI
March 19, 2011 at 10:29 pm