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Subject: TRUTHS WE HAVE LEARNED
From: FastmetalBDF@aol.com
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:18:27 EDT
----- 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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