----- Original Message -----
From: Bud Hinkley <budhinkley@erols.com>
To: Art Sullo <artsullo@e-scoop.net>; Bruce Flood <bflood1@earthlink.net>;
Nancy Dingee <ndingee@snet.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 10:04 AM
Subject: True!!
> Mr. Gates...what a guy!!! Just thought you'd enjoy reading his 11 Rules
> -
>
> To anyone with kids, of any age (or who is going to have them), 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 teachings created a full 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 40 thousand dollars 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.
> 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
> parents' 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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