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Reality Vs Idealism This Can Be Debated In Some Ways...

#1 {lang:macro__useroffline}   Ferret Overlord {lang:icon}

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Posted 25 May 2004 - 04:42 AM

Email I got. Tell me what you think about it.


BILL GATES' SPEECH TO MT. WHITNEY HIGH SCHOOL in Visalia, CA.
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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.

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Posted 25 May 2004 - 09:42 AM

I agree with the basic concept of the speach...

But as I understand it wasn't actualy a speach by Bill Gates. I *think*.

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Posted 25 May 2004 - 10:23 AM

I believe this was a summary of a speech by Bill Gates as interpreted by some crazy tree-hugging teen, or something of the kind. Still, many of these things are true things, just ones that aren't usually discussed within our society as a whole.
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Posted 01 July 2004 - 08:05 PM

I agree with it all whole-heartedly!
If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
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Posted 01 July 2004 - 09:32 PM

Yep.



ok, in the spirit of not making a "one word post", i agree entirly, i beleive that school fails miserably at teaching kids how to deal with the "real world"
(of topic)
I REALY hate those reality TV shows, were scantly clad anorexic people run around eating bugs for money ect. ect. those shows do more to dammage kids socal lives than anything else in existance. they promote the idea that everyone HAS to be prety/hansome ect. to get anywere in life.
(on topic)

so, i agree with most of the things in that speech. most of it is common sense, but as a great six year old once said (and i'm applying this to modern society) "I have plenty of common sense, I just chose to ignore it" (Calvin, of the comic: Calvin and Hobbes)
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Posted 01 July 2004 - 10:20 PM

yeah... Im gonna put that in my profile... those are words to live by.


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Overwhelmed as one would be, placed in my position.
Such a heavy burden now to be "The One".
Born to bear and read to all the details of our ending
To write it down for all the world to see.
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Posted 01 July 2004 - 10:21 PM

Ironically, despite their blasphemous nature, they are bluetongue.gif

Oh, and

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Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

While I'm not a Uber-Nerd, I still get straight A's. YESSSSSSSS!
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Posted 01 July 2004 - 11:32 PM

QUOTE (Hyperfried @ Jul 1 2004, 06:21 PM)
While I'm not a Uber-Nerd, I still get straight A's. YESSSSSSSS!

Due to my kindish nature, I refuse to debate that.

I was reading the title and I'm like, woah! I know those words?

It's funny what summer break can do to you.

This post has been edited by Ferret Overlord: 01 July 2004 - 11:32 PM

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Posted 02 July 2004 - 01:14 AM

QUOTE (Ferret Overlord @ Jul 1 2004, 05:32 PM)
QUOTE (Hyperfried @ Jul 1 2004, 06:21 PM)
While I'm not a Uber-Nerd, I still get straight A's. YESSSSSSSS!

Due to my kindish nature, I refuse to debate that.

I was reading the title and I'm like, woah! I know those words?

It's funny what summer break can do to you.

taht schould like rule number 12 or something:p i forgot how to spell cat and my own name ... scary

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#10 {lang:macro__useroffline}   Ferret Overlord {lang:icon}

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Posted 02 July 2004 - 11:07 AM

I can actually believe that... weird.
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Posted 06 December 2004 - 12:09 AM

Sounds ok.
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