WORDS OF WISDOM
Charles Sykes is the author of DUMBING DOWN OUR KIDS. It was Charles who volunteered for high school and college graduates a list of things they did not learn in school. 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 forty thousand dollars 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. He doesn’t have tenure. 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 screw up, it’s not your parents’ fault so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them. Rule 7: Before you were born…
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