Bill Gates recently 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 were. 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.
These are some of the model papers set by me for the G.C.E A/L students of Sri Lanka, who is sitting for Business Statistics exam under the local curriculam in english medium. These marerials are as a result of my preparation for few students to whom i am facilitating this subject. Today at the moment there are only few students/schools are following this subject in an around Colombo area. But in near future dare will be a huge need for the resource matereal when all the national acadamic activities shift to the english medium. i would predict this would happen in the year of 2015 approximately. I would like to keep on uploading all the materials i have, which will be helpful for few students in any of the future date.
Title: Sri Lankan Financial Services Organizations and the Effectiveness of Relationship Marketing Strategies
This document is a complete summery of information to be taken into consideration for the students who are preparing for the edexcel g.c.e (o/l) examinations.
I have serious question to ask, why our students are not given permission to use the calculators in the entire school education career. In the examination too, it is offensive to use a calculator or magnetic devise. According to my best of knowledge this kind of situation only prevailing in our country. Even in India and other less developed countries too adapted to British standards and they have given access to calculators. Since our education system is very much similar to British national curriculum from the good old days, why are we reluctant to adjust to new and easiest methods available in this technically advanced world?
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