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Here is a list of eleven things you did not learn in school. These rules are usually attributed to Bill Gates from forwarded e-mails. But it wasn't written by Bill Gates. It's an excerpt from the book "Dumbing Down our Kids" by educator Charles Sykes. It is a list of eleven things you did not learn in school and directed at high school and college grads. Regardless of who wrote them, it's very good advice. Here's the full list. ---------- Whether you like Bill Gates or not...this is prettycool. Here's some advice Bill Gates recently dished out at a high school speech about 11 things they did not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teaching has created a full generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept sets 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 BEFOR...

All I can say is, I feel sorry for the Filipino people. They've never really tasted freedom since the time of the Spaniards and I think they will forever be second class citizens or slaves of another country or class of people. Think about it, 400 years of Spanish rule? 40 years of American rule, a couple of years under Japanese rule, 20 years of Marcos rule and 10 years of Arroyo's rule. It's practically built into the psyche of the Filipinos to be ruled by someone and never to be treated as an equal in his own country. I hope that one day, they will wake up and not allow this to happen again. They did once, during Cory Aquino's time, but they let down their guard and allowed the same old traditional politics to creep back in. Now, it's so entrenched that basically from the top down is mired in corruption As they say, the leader should set an example. But the leader in this case is setting a bad example for everyone. Tragic really.