11 rules by Bill Gates.

[rebar]

My 19 year old son Max is having some issues with college. He dropped out without my knowledge. Never asked for help. I cant hold his hand forever. My friend sent me something Bill Gates wrote. Im not really a fan of Bill Gates but his 11 rules has helped my son and if you have kids it might help them as well.

Bill Gates 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.

Eleven things they 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..

If you can read this... Thank a Teacher.
If you can read this in English... Thank a Soldier!
And for life and everything else you have... Thank God!!

 

[texmax]

Sooo true! Got to get my 16 y/o son to read this.:bang head:

 

[VMAX1260]

that's cool. i am not maried. dont have kids. but this is deep. thanks for sharing

 

[Jack Butler]

Ha, ha...that's good!

 

[RaWarrior]

Yep...that's what happens when everything has to be "politically correct"....breeding a whole generation of well, pussies, who will grow up to be more smiles-and-bullshit politicians who don't know the value of a dollar.

 

[rebar]

Yep...that's what happens when everything has to be "politically correct"....breeding a whole generation of well, pussies, who will grow up to be more smiles-and-bullshit politicians who don't know the value of a dollar.

You got it.. Whats scary is that these kids are the future and will inherit the US.

We sound like our fathers talking about us 30 years ago

 

[KJShover]

It's not Bill Gates' list. It's actually a pared-down version of an article that appeared in the San Diego Union-Tribune in 1996. It later evolved in to his book 50 rules kids wont learn in school: Real world antidotes to feel-good education.

It was written by Charles J. Sykes, best known as the author of "Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good about Themselves, but Can't Read, Write, or Add."


Here are the rules:


Life is not fair. Get used to it.

The real world won't care as much as your school does about your self-esteem. It'll expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.

Sorry, you won't make sixty thousand dollars a year right out of high school. And you won't be a vice president or have a company car. You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn't have a designer label.

You are not entitled...

No matter what your daddy says, you are not a princess...

No, you cannot be everything you dream...

If you think our teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He won't have tenre, so he'll tend to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he's not going to ask you how you FEEL about it.

Your navel is not that interesting. Don't spend your life gazing at it.

Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life hasn't.

Life is actually more like dodgeball than your gym teacher thinks.

After you graduate, you won't be competing against rivals who were raised to be wimps on the playground.

Humiliation is a part of life. Deal with it.

You're not going to the NBA, so hold off on the bling and spare us the attitude.

Looking like a slut does not empower you.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping. They called it opportunity.

Your parents and your little brother are not as embarrassing as you think. What's embarrassing is ingratitude, rudeness, and sulkiness.

Your parents weren't as boring before as they are now. They got that way paying your bills, driving you around, saving for your education, cleaning up your room, and listening to you tell them how idealistic you are.

Life is not divided into semesters. And you don't get summer off.

It's not your parents' fault. If you screw up, you are responsible.

Smoking does not make you look cool....It makes you look moronic.
You're offended? So what? No, really. So what?

You are not a victim. So stop whining.

Someday you will have to grow up and actually move out of your parents' house.

Batman's girlfriend is right: "It's not who you are underneath, but what you do that defines you."

Pi does not care what you think.

A moral compass does not come as standard equipment.

Your sexual organs were not meant to engage in higher-order thinking or decision making.

Somebody may be watching...

Learn to deal with hypocrisy.

Zero tolerance = zero common sense.

Naked people look different in real life.

Television is not real life.

Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.

Winners have a philosophy of life. So do losers.

If your butt has its own zip code, it's not because McDonald's forced you to eat all those Big Macs. If you smoke, it's not Joe Camel's fault.

You are not immortal.

Being connected does not mean you aren't clueless.

Look people in the eye when you meet them...

People in black-and-white movies were in color in real life. And no, the world did not begin when you were born.

Despite the billion-dollar campaign to turn your brain into tapioca pudding, try to learn to think clearly and logically.

You are not the first and you are not the only one who has gone through what you are going through.

Change the oil.

Don't let the successes of others depress you.

Your colleagues are not necessarily your friends, and your friends aren't your family.

Grown-ups forget how scary it is to be your age. Just remember: this too shall pass.

Check on the guinea pig in the basement.

You are not perfect, and you don't have to be.

Tell yourself the story of your life. Have a point.

Don't forget to say thank you.

Enjoy life while you can.

 

[rebar]

Thanks for the clarification KJ.

But I prefer Bills pared-down version. Is easier to stomach.

 

[old timer]

Fuckin aye....!

 

[DakRatFink]

Pi does not care what you think.

Most of this passage is good advice, but I like this. It it a good reminder that there are absolutes in this universe. Some of us spend so much effort trying to predict variables, we forget this.

 

[tmosel]

Great post Rebar!

 

[rebar]

The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America

http://www.newswithviews.com/public_schools/public_schools10.htm

Wow.. I guess Im part of the dumbed down masses herd.

Copied from The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America

"Americans forget that the present government education system started as a Prussian import in the 1840?s??50?s. It was a system built on Hegel?s belief that the state was ?God? walking on earth.

The only way to restore educational freedom,and put education back into the hands of parents where it belongs, is to get the federal government, with its coercive policies, out of education. The billions of dollars being spent by the federal government to destroy educational freedom must be halted, and that can only be done by getting American legislators to understand that the American people want to remain a free people, in charge of their own lives and the education of their children."


amen

 

[jester 42]

Add these:

"Push, pull, or GTF outa the way"!

"Beware the helplessness of the chronic victim"!

Jester 42

 

[SpecOps13]

I know a lot of people who could learn a great deal if they could read and understand those words of wisdom.............

 

[sdt354]

Thanks Rebar, I feel your pain. I have a son that mirrors yours and will give him this. I also have a daughter that must have read this along time ago. She graduated BU last yr,a year early to help save tuition. Now teaches in Texas at 22 years old.
Steve-o

 

[rebar]

Thanks Rebar, I feel your pain. I have a son that mirrors yours and will give him this. I also have a daughter that must have read this along time ago. She graduated BU last yr,a year early to help save tuition. Now teaches in Texas at 22 years old.
Steve-o

It's funny how things work out. Both of my sisters are doctors. I was emancipated when I was 16.. I guess the apple don't fall to far from the tree cuz I about threw my son out at that age.

Is it a boy girl thing?

 

[sdt354]

I think girls sort things out at an earlier age? Know what they want and do it. Then, they get older and forget all that good shit....lol
Steve-o

 

[max_caper]

I like the rule about nerds...so true!

My neighbour had this quote displayed in his kitchen where his teenagers could read it:

TEENAGERS
Tired of getting bossed around by stupid parents?
Act now!
Move out, find a job, pay your own bills.
Do it now while you still know everything!

Always liked that quote!

Blaine

 

[rebar]

TEENAGERS
Tired of getting bossed around by stupid parents?
Act now!
Move out, find a job, pay your own bills.
Do it now while you still know everything!

Always liked that quote!

Blaine

Golden! It doesnt take long to read and gets right to the point.

 

[85 MAX-fan]

I like the rule about nerds...so true!

My neighbour had this quote displayed in his kitchen where his teenagers could read it:

TEENAGERS
Tired of getting bossed around by stupid parents?
Act now!
Move out, find a job, pay your own bills.
Do it now while you still know everything!

Always liked that quote!

Blaine

Awesome.