Comments on: New school bans the word “school”

By: Steve L.-

Steve L.- — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:43:09 +0000

PP I wish I’d said it then. Regardless it’s a good dose of reality that youth should be aware of. My 11 y/o grandson seem to have the idea he can take his present personal habits and coolness into a work place and doesn’t understand Mom won’t be there to get him out the door and to work on time. Who ever wrote it, and SOMEONE had to should be awarded something.

By: Pesky Pundit

Pesky Pundit — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:38:43 +0000

STEVE L:

Good advice, but you have been the victim of a popular pass-along. Gates NEVER said those things in an speech to high school students. That was debunked several years ago. I don’t know if such a speech has ever been given by anyone to high school students. It should have been, and I’d like to believe it has been, but NO SOURCE for that advice has EVER been identified.

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:05:10 +0000

Ahhh, while the world’s population continues to increase, it’s IQ remains the same…

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Steynian 303 « Free Canuckistan! — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:35:32 +0000

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By: Scott Gilbreath

Scott Gilbreath — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:54:52 +0000

Thanks, Steve. That’s all very sensible; unfortunately, common sense is in short supply in public education these days.

By: Steve L.-

Steve L.- — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:44:10 +0000

I hope they are as successful in locating a PC employer with the same standards

Whether you like Bill Gates or not…this is pretty cool. 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 teaching has created a full generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept sets 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 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 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.