A friend sent this. I liked the reality of it.

>Bill Gates' Speech

>
>TO: MT. WHITNEY HIGH SCHOOL in Visalia,CA.
>
>Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this!
>
>
>To anyone with kids of any age, here's some advice. Bill Gates
>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 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 $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.