Gates'  Rules        
 Bill Gates  recently (about a month back) 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.