Da qualche anno circola in rete un elenco di regole che - secondo molti (vedi ad esempio tgcom24.com) - sarebbero state pronunciate da Bill Gates, il genio di Microsoft, in un recente discorso tenuto presso una scuola superiore americana.
In questo discorso si affermerebbe che vi sono 10 cose che la scuola non insegna, ma che dovrebbero essere imparate al più presto, per seguire le sue orme.
Sono regole che che mettono in guardia da buoni sentimenti ed insegnamenti "politicamente corretti" che hanno creato generazioni di giovani del tutto privi di senso della realtà della vita: la vita non è tutta rose e fiori e bisogna imparare a prendersi le proprie responsabilità, ammettere gli errori, apprezzare quanto i nostri genitori fanno per noi."
Ecco le dieci regole:
Regola 1: La vita è ingiusta: abituatevi!
Regola 2: Il mondo non se ne frega per la vostra autostima.Il mondo si aspetta che combinate qualcosa prima di poterne gioirne voi stessi.
Regola 3: Non si guadagnano $ 60.000 all'anno una volta finita la scuola. Non avrete telefono e auto aziendale prima di aver meritato, guadagnato questi privilegi.
Regola 4: Se pensate che il vostro insegnante sia duro con voi, aspettate di avere un capo.
Regola 5: Lavorare in una friggitoria (o simili) non significa "abbassarsi". I vostri nonni avevano una parola diversa per questo: la chiamavano "opportunità".
Regola 6: Se fate un pasticcio, QUESTA NON É COLPA DEI VOSTRI GENITORI, smettetela di piagnucolare e imparate dai vostri errori.
Regola 7: Prima della vostra nascita, i vostri genitori non erano così noiosi come lo sono ora! Sono diventati in questo modo: * Per pagare le vostra bollette, * Per pulire i vostri vestiti * A furia di ripetere all'infinito quanto siete bravi e intelligenti.Quindi, prima di salvare le foreste pluviali dai parassiti della generazione dei vostri genitori, iniziare a pulire la vostra stanza e mettete in ordine tutto ciò che vi si trova.
Regola 8: in certe scuole sono stati aboliti i voti e i giudizi e vi sono state date delle opportunità per essere promossi: non è così nella vita reale!
Regola 9: La vita non è divisa in semestri. L'estate non è un periodo di ferie. E sono molto pochi i datori di lavoro disposti ad aiutarvi a farvi assumere, è vostra responsabilità.
Regola 10: La televisione non è "vita reale".Nella vita reale, le persone lasciano il caffè e vanno a lavorare.
Queste regole sono state riprese anche da personaggi pubblici (vedi la comunicazione del Sindaco di Gemona)
In realtà, dietro queste dieci regolette (che pare girino sul web all’incirca dall'anno 2000), Bill Gates non c'entrerebbe nulla.
I consigli non sarebbero neppure dieci ma addirittura cinquanta, ed apparterrebbero al riformatore dell’educazione Charles J. Sykes, autore del libro (non tradotto in italiano) Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good about Themselves, but Can’t Read, Write, or Add.
Per approfondire, vi invito a leggere un post del sito americano "UrbanLegend.about.com", dove, in riferimento alle regole attribuite a Bill Gates, si afferma appunto che:
Bill Gates did not write it or say it.
Circulating via email, the text of a speech allegedly given to high school graduates by Bill Gates in which he sets out "11 rules for life."
Description: Viral text / Forwarded email
Circulating since: Feb. 2000Status: Falsely attributed to Bill Gates
E come prova di questo, si riporta l'origine delle regole circolate in rete in una email del 1998:
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From: glen@substance.abuse.blackdown.org
Subject: Some rules kids won't learn in school.
To: 0xdeadbeef@substance.abuse.blackdown.org
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 13:22:52 -0500
Subject: Some rules kids won't learn in school.
To: 0xdeadbeef@substance.abuse.blackdown.org
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 13:22:52 -0500
Forwarded-by: Daniel Rogers <rogersd@nanaimo.island.net>
Some rules kids won't learn in school
Text By Charles J. Sykes
Printed in San Diego Union Tribune
September 19, 1996
Unfortunately, there are some things that children should be learning in
school, but don't. Not all of them have to do with academics. As a modest
back-to-school offering, here are some basic rules that may not have found
their way into the standard curriculum.
Rule No. 1: Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teen-ager uses the
phrase, "It's not fair" 8.6 times a day. You got it from your parents, who
said it so often you decided they must be the most idealistic generation
ever. When they started hearing it from their own kids, they realized Rule
No. 1.
Rule No. 2: The real world won't care as much about your self-esteem as much
as your school does. It'll expect you to accomplish something before you
feel good about yourself. This may come as a shock. Usually, when inflated
self-esteem meets reality, kids complain it's not fair. (See Rule No. 1)
Rule No. 3: Sorry, you won't make $40,000 a year right out of high school.
And you won't be a vice president or have a car phone either. You may even
have to wear a uniform that doesn't have a Gap label.
Rule No. 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait 'til you get a boss. He
doesn't have tenure, so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he's
not going to ask you how you feel about it.
Rule No. 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grand-parents
had a different word of burger flipping. They called it opportunity. They
weren't embarrassed making minimum wage either. They would have been
embarrassed to sit around talking about Kurt Cobain all weekend.
Rule No. 6: It's not your parents' fault. If you screw up, you are
responsible. This is the flip side of "It's my life," and "You're not the
boss of me," and other eloquent proclamations of your generation. When you
turn 18, it's on your dime. Don't whine about it, or you'll sound like a
baby boomer.
Rule No. 7: Before you were born your parents weren't as boring as they are
now. They got that way paying your bills, cleaning up your room and
listening to you tell them how idealistic you are. And by the way, before
you save the rain forest from the blood-sucking parasites of your parents'
generation, try delousing the closet in your bedroom.
Rule No. 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life
hasn't. In some schools, they'll give you as many times as you want to get
the right answer. Failing grades have been abolished and class
valedictorians scrapped, lest anyone's feelings be hurt. Effort is as
important as results. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance
to anything in real life. (See Rule No. 1, Rule No. 2 and Rule No. 4)
Rule No. 9: Life is not divided into semesters, and you don't get summers
off. Not even Easter break. They expect you to show up every day. For eight
hours. And you don't get a new life every 10 weeks. It just goes on and on.
While we're at it, very few jobs are interesting in fostering your
self-expression or helping you find yourself. Fewer still lead to
self-realization. (See Rule No. 1 and Rule No. 2.)
Rule No. 10: Television is not real life. Your life is not a sitcom. Your
problems will not all be solved in 30 minutes, minus time for commercials.
In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop to go to jobs.
Your friends will not be as perky or pliable as Jennifer Aniston.
Rule No. 11: Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all
could.
Rule No. 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic.
Next time you're out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his
mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for "expressing
yourself" with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.
Rule No. 13: You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the
impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is
romantic, you obviously haven't seen one of your peers at room temperature
lately.
Rule No. 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school's a
bother, and life is depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it
was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now.
You're welcome. 
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