Bill Gates Quotes About Education
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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.
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I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
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'I don't know' has become 'I don't know yet'.
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I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.
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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.
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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.
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If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
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Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
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Making sure all our students get a great education, find a career that's fulfilling and rewarding, and have a chance to live out their dreams ... wouldn't just make us a more successful country - it would also make us a more fair and just one.
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Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.
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Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
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The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
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If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
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These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation.
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