Microsoft's Bill Gates' High School Speech On The Eleven Rules of Life Is A Total Lie!

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Posted on: 20th Mar 2014

Have you ever heard about Bill Gates'
High School Graduation speech on the
"Eleven Rules Of Life"... that he NEVER
Gave?

It has been a long internet rumor ( e-Rumor )
and one that I believed to be true until I found
a site which posted that Bill Gates NEVER
spoke before a group of high school students,
giving them his eleven rules of life.

I had also heard the speech was given at a
High School Graduation Ceremony, which
apparently is also complete fiction.

The truth is that the 11 Rules Of Life speech
is NOT from Bill Gates!
 
According to THIS Truth Or Fiction SITE  it is an
excerpt from the book "Dumbing Down Our Kids,"
written by educator, Charles Sykes.  

The excerpt is a list of eleven things you
did not learn in school ( and probably never will )
and is directed at high school and college grads. 

However, no matter who wrote it, I feel this ought
to be copied, printed out and posted in EVERY
school across the United States. In my opinion...
It is THAT GOOD and TRUE!

What follows below this sentence and what you
will be reading if you choose to continue doing so, 
is an actual example of the e-Rumor as it has
appeared on the Internet some 10+ years ago.

Once again, THIS was found RIGHT HERE.

It Starts...

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
a 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, 
society's fault, your friends' fault, the government's fault
or your teacher's fault. So don't whine about your mistakes;
learn from them.
NOTE: I included the later four as they are usually also blamed
and used as excuses for one's unwise choices and poor
circumstances in life.

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.

Thank you for taking the time to read and comment!

Many Blessings to you and yours.

John