A Scorpion's Advice

To anyone with kids of any age, here's some advice. Bill Gates (Scorpio) 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 the 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 are 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.

Hahah the man is funny. I wonder if he's doing this because he doesn't have any kids of his own. Either way, he didn't sugercoat his shish for the schoolkids did he? Lol

Rule 5: Flipping burgers are not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents
had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.

Damn straight.

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.

Unfortunate

its true though.....i say we go back to paddling the little bastards.....

Kids should be seen and not heard!
Discipline is where its at..teach them the hard life so they appreciate money, love, life etc..I can't stand spoilt brats..

"Actually he has three kids of his own."

Oh, you're right.