The document summarizes 11 rules that Bill Gates shared in a 2008 speech about things students do not learn in school. The rules emphasize that life is not fair, accomplishments take hard work, and school does not prepare students for the realities of the working world where there are winners and losers and employers do not help people find themselves. It also encourages students to be nice to intelligent "nerds" who may become their bosses.

1. Subject: Superb Bill Gates comments Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! Bill Gates gave a speech in 2008 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

2. Subject: Superb Bill Gates comments This should be posted in all schools and work places

3. Superb Bill Gates comments Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

4. Superb Bill Gates comments 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.

5. Superb Bill Gates comments 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.

6. Superb Bill Gates comments Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

7. Superb Bill Gates comments Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

8. Superb Bill Gates comments Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault , so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

9. Superb Bill Gates comments 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.

10. Superb Bill Gates comments 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 chances as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

11. Superb Bill Gates comments 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.

12. Superb Bill Gates comments Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

13. Superb Bill Gates comments Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

14. Superb Bill Gates comments If you agree, pass it on. If you can read this - Thank a teacher!

15. WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WASN'T LOOKING When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw you hang my first painting on the refrigerator, and I immediately wanted to paint another one.

16. WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WASN'T LOOKING When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw you feed a stray cat, and I learned that it was good to be kind to animals.

17. WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WASN'T LOOKING When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw you make my favorite cake for me, and I learned that the little things can be the special things in life.

18. WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WASN'T LOOKING When you thought I wasn't looking, I heard you say a prayer, and I knew that there is a God I could always talk to, and I learned to trust in Him.

19. WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WASN'T LOOKING When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw you make a meal and take it to a friend who was sick, and I learned that we all have to help take care of each other.

20. WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WASN'T LOOKING When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw you give of your time and money to help people who had nothing, and I learned that those who have something should give to those who don't.

21. WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WASN'T LOOKING When you thought I wasn't looking , I saw you take care of our house and everyone in it, and I learned we have to take care of what we are given.

22. WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WASN'T LOOKING When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw how you handled your responsibilities, even when you didn' t feel good, and I learned that I would have to be responsible when I grow up.

23. WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WASN'T LOOKING When you thought I wasn't looking I saw tears come from your eyes, and I learned that sometimes things hurt, but it's all right to cry.

24. WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WASN'T LOOKING When you thought I wasn't looking I saw that you cared, and I wanted to be everything that I could be.

25. WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WASN'T LOOKING When you thought I wasn't looking I learned most of life's lessons that I need to know to be a good and productive person when I grow up.

26. WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WASN'T LOOKING When you thought I wasn't looking , I looked at you and wanted to say 'Thanks for all the things I saw when you thought I wasn't looking.'

27. WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WASN'T LOOKING I AM SHARING THIS WITH PEOPLE I KNOW WHO DO SO MUCH FOR OTHERS, BUT THINK THAT NO ONE EVER SEES.

28. WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WASN'T LOOKING Each of us (parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, teacher, friend) influences the life of a child. How will you touch the life of someone today?

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