4 posts tagged “school”
Recently retired Microsoft founder Bill Gates gave some tips to high school students. I am not a fan of Microsoft but some of his tips are spot on. I just thought besides the basic reading and writing, they don't teach you much stuff you can use in real life, like if did I ever use pythagorus's theorem ?
RULE 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!
Well people don't play fair too do they ? Bill should know about that !
RULE 2: The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
RULE 3: You will NOT make £30,000 ($60,000) a year right out of high school.
RULE 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
So true ... teachers are soft.
RULE 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: 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 and listening to you talk about how cool you are.
Yeah my dad reminds us how rich he would be if he didn't have any kids.
RULE 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT.
RULE 9: Life is not divided into terms. You don't get summers off, and very few employers are interested in helping you "find yourself". Do that in your own time.
RULE 10: TV is not real life. In real life, people 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!
This is the funniest one ! Nerds have their place in the world like everyone else.
If the supermarkets don't voluntary start charging us for the use of plastic bags, then the government is going step in and make in mandatory. I've noticed a few of the supermarkets only handing out plastic bags when you ask for them. I am bad because I always forget to bring my own cloth or refugee bag to the shops.
I always use the bag twice because I use them as bin liners and my lunch bag too. Even when I was a teenager, it didn't bother me to use a plastic shopping bag for my books. My school bag was big and bulky, often there were days when I only needed one or two books so I wasn't going to my big bulky bag. The other good thing about bringing a plastic bag to school was when it snowed you could use it has a sleigh to down the side of a hill.
If you asked a four year old kid this question for their entrance test into school.
There are five birds in a tree, a farmer shoots one of them dead, how many birds are left in the tree ?
What would be your immediate answer ?
Well when the kid answers "none because they flew away scared from the sound of the gunshot.", you would applaud them for thinking outside the box. Instead the teacher's reaction was to berate the child, stating they were wrong and the insisting the answer was four. People like that should not become teachers !
I've only been on a couple of school trips, the one that sticks most in my mind was the trip to the diary farm and hill top when I was in primary school. We had to climb up this hill, it seemed each child had there own path through this hill which would seem like a mountain to a kid like me at the time. What I remember most my sister had an asthma attack and had to sit in the mini van with one of the policemen who went with us on the trip, lucky her because the hill was littered with rabbit sh*t. That was nothing compared to what we witnessed at the diary farm.
There was a huge two story vat, which they would pump the cow manure into. The smell was unbearable but they made each of us climb this rickety wooden ladder to look at the manure being pumped, I barely lifted head above the rim of the vat, it was like a huge sea of brown sludge. My teacher asked me did I see the manure, of course I damn did what did you want me to do ? stand there taking in the whole smell and atmosphere?
