Posted 7:41 PM by DUH

Everyone thought this was by Bill Gates, as that forwarded email tells everyone. It's actually an excerpt from the book "Dumbing Down our Kids" by educator Charles Sykes.  I'd say the same things to my own kids. : )

11 Things I Did Not Learn from School

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.