Here's some food for thought from
Bill Gates' Book (which was supported by
a RAND Study).
For high
school and college graduates, here is a list of 11 things they
did not learn
in school. In his book, Bill Gates 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 until you
get a boss. He/She
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; 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.
Source of the article not exactly
known to me.