Circulating via email, the text of a speech allegedly given by Bill Gates in which he sets out 11 rules of life for today's high school students

BILL GATES' SPEECH TO MT. WHITNEY HIGH SCHOOL in Visalia, California.

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this!
To anyone with kids of any age, here's some advice. Bill Gates 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 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.

A connect-the-dot face has a girlfriend and I go to movies alone. Is that fair?

All I know is the Count of Monte Cristo never got his ass kicked by a girl.

For a marriage to end, someone usually had to die.

Friendships were as important as neighborhood loyalty. Your friends gave you an identity and a sense of belonging. They afforded you a group you could trust that extended beyond the bounds of family.

Good things and bad. Goin’ in, you never know which one you’re gonna find. Always be prepared for both. And most of the time, bet on the bad.

I will do my best not to fail you and not to fail to find the truth. I will do my best to seek justice. And I know you will to.

-It’s the sheep that strays that you most want back.
-It’s not too late, Father. We still have a chance to bring in a couple of stray sheep. One last chance.
-Is that one chance legal?
-Last chances never are.

Just be glad you’re going home, Shakes. Forget everything else.

-Only the baddest apples do full runs.
-Or end up dead.

You ate eel? On your own? I mean, without nobody havin’ a gun on you?

You gotta stay tough to be tough. Guys smell it when you’re weak. Eat you like a salad.

You want your witness to have one hand raised in court. Not two.


-- LORENZO CARCATERRA --

This is an e-mail from my friend Pauline (name changed to protect identity) about her mishaps in a certain public high school she's working at.

Background:
Pauline did not attend public school in her primary or secondary education. Except in college, of course, she was my classmate in a government-supported university. It's her first time to teach in public high, as a professional. As an intern, she taught in Rizal High School.

this is her e-mail:


last thursday ako nag-start mag-work sa public school (June 28, 2007). sobrang na-excite ako kasi matagal ko narin hinihintay yung public school para matapos na ako sa DOST. lahat nga ng pwede ko i-txt ng time na yun, binalitaan ko na tinawagan na ako ng public school.

pero gulat talaga ako. ganun pala sa public school...

imagine, 102 first year students ang nagsisiksikan sa isang classroom na hindi air-con at wala ni isang electric fan.

hindi ko alam bakit nandun parin ako sa school na yun. madalas akong mag-reklamo sa sarili ko (though alam ko, wala akong karapatan) pero naiisip ko naman yung mga walang trabaho na gustong magtrabaho.

hindi lang siguro nagsi-sink in pa sa akin na nahihirapan ako dun. sa sobrang overwhelmed ko, ang dami ko pang hinihintay na pwedeng ma-discover dun sa school.

akala ko nagjo-joke lang sila nung tinanong ko kung nasaan yung wash room/area. wala pala talaga, maliit na c.r. lang. walang running water, tinanong ko ulit sila kung saan kumukuha ng tubig, akala ko joke ulit, sa ulan pala. yun ay kung may ulan... shocks! seryoso talaga sila.

sa totoo lang, ngayon ko lang nalaman na may ganung school sa bundok dito sa'min. rough road ang daan, very steep. hindi naman kasi ako dun nag-apply, kundi sa main, malapit lang sa bahay namin, pero dun ako dinala kasi, dun sobrang kulang sa mga teachers. mababait naman yung mga tao dun kaya siguro up to now, andun parin ako... "sobrang dedicated" ba tawag dito? hehehehe... ewan.

hindi ako makapag-c.r., sa amoy palang, hindi ako makalapit sa pinto. hintayin ko pa "out" ko para sa bahay nalang ako magsi-c.r. grabe noh?

wala rin palang tindahan ng food dun, pag-lunch tym na, mga 1 km para makarating ka sa tindahan ng food, buti nalang nung first day ko, nag-baon ako ng lunch..

ang laki talaga ng ginagawa kong adjustment. before kasi, nung 1st year of teaching ko, though mabigat sa load, 15 students lang naman ang laman ng classroom ko. sa 15 na yun, asar na asar na ako pag may nagsalitang 5. imagine nalang yung 102...

wait, hindi ko sinasabi na pangit mag-work o sobrang nakakamatay magwork sa public, natutuwa kasi ako sa desires ng mga bata na matuto kaya siguro andun parin ako.

nga pala, kung sino ang may gusto na mga-apply dun, sa mga naghahanap pa rin ng work, samahan nyo ako dun... ako lang kasi ang physics major dun eh.


***No, thanks.
Gusto ko sanang damayan ka pero...
sa ibang paraan nalang, okay. Ayoko pang tumanda.

"Ang Dios ay tapat. Gagawa Sya ng paraan para matiis mo ang tukso. Kaya pag dumating sayo ang tukso, wag kang malungkot. Dahil dumating sayo ang tukso na kaya mong tiisin para maging mapalad ka. Kaya pumayag ang Dios na makalapit sayo ang tukso dahil alam Nyang matitiis mo yun."

Walang tuksong dumating sa inyo na hindi karaniwan sa tao, subalit tapat ang Diyos, na hindi niya ipahihintulot na kayo'y tuksuhin nang higit sa inyong makakaya; kundi kalakip din ng tukso ay naglalaan ng pag-iwas upang ito'y inyong makayang tiisin.

I Mga Taga-Corinto 10:13

words & music by Meno Augustine Sebastiano


** When i first heard Meno sing this what he called QUAT Hymn (with his right hand on his chest!) i laughed so hard my appendix dropped. I swear, Meno never runs out of humor. I don't think i'll ever hear him speak without a punch line, and it just comes out of him naturally.

Michael:
You know, Butter, you're not as dumb as you look

John:
But he is as ugly as he looks. It's like hangin' out with that guy with the bells

Michael:
What guy with the bells?

Shakes:
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

John:
That's him

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Albus Dumbledore, talking to Harry Potter about Voldemort:



(Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; JK Rowling)

* * *

This is a powerful read with a chilling premise about diabolical doctors (and big pharmaceutical companies).

Quinn Cleary is smart, idealistic and poor. She's been accepted at The Ingraham, a prestigious medical school, completely subsidized by Kleederman Pharmaceuticals, where a select few receive the finest education free of charge.

But something is terribly wrong at The Ingraham. Quinn notices subtle changes in the bright, hand-picked students. Then she stumbles upon the silent, staring patients in locked Ward C.

She and her friend Tim Brown slowly discover the secret agenda behind the brainwashing and the grisly truth of the school's research.


http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/f-paul-wilson/select.htm
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alam mo ang hadlang dumarating pag nakikita ng demonyo na magiging kapakipakinabang ka sa DIOS. siguro nakikita ng demonyo na magiging kapakipakinabang ka kaya marami syang ipinanghahadlang. kung ako ikaw, itutuloy-tuloy ko. So ang alagad ni Kristo nakahanda syang sumunod kay Kristo kahit magalit ang kahit na sino. Yan ang sinasabi sa Biblia. kaya yung sinasabing titigil ka nalang para walang magalit, masamang aral yun...

ang lakas ay nasa kabataan. lakas ng pananampalataya, lakas ng katawan, lakas ng kalooban, at yung lakas na nagmumula sa DIOS

kumilos tayong palagi, mga kapatid na kabataan, ayon sa hula. ipakita natin sa buong mundo na kung ang DIOS ang magsalita, ang Kanyang salita ay totoo. sa mundo ngayon ng katakut-takot na kasamaan at katampalasanan, sa mundo ng sari-saring mga bisyo at kalayawan, may kapisanan ng mga kabataang may takot sa DIOS at gumaganap ng Kanyang kalooban

kayo kabataan kayo. nasa inyo ang sigla at lakas ng pangangatawan, at the height of your youth which is above 25, ay napakarami nyong pwedeng magawa. hindi natin maaaring isa-isahin lahat ng magagawa ng kabataan. an enormous energy and the power to do GOD's will depends on each and every one of you. kaya ang masasabi ko, wag nyong gugulin ang inyong kabataan na masayang ito.

--EFS