Bill Gates' high school speech on The Eleven Rules of Life-Fiction!

Bill Gates' High School Speech on The Eleven Rules of Life-Fiction!

Summary of the eRumor
Bill Gates spoke before a group of high school students and gave them his eleven rules of life.

The Truth
This is not from Bill Gates. It's an excerpt from the book "Dumbing Down our Kids" by educator Charles Sykes. It is a list of eleven things you did not learn in school and directed at high school and college grads.

A real example of the eRumor as it has appeared on the Internet:

----------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.