11 rules that students do not learn in high school or college.

Maybe it's different in other parts of the USA, but when I look around at high school and college students today, I wonder what on earth is going to happen when they get out into the real world of work. A perfect example is a young high school freshman I know. One of her teachers gave her an assignment and reviewed it before she submitted it for grading. The teacher told her she needed to cite her sources at the end of her report and gave her a URL to learn how to do this. The student went there and immediately complained that she couldn't figure out what the page said. I looked at it with her and pointed out the page covered how to cite sources from newspapers to web sites, magazines to books.

The problem? She had to actually read the whole page to learn how to cite the sources she had used! Maybe it's the Internet age - we are used to instant gratification now. How did we ever wait 3-5 days for a letter from a friend?

A great article on Training Systems, Great Training for Great Employees, lists 11 rules that students do not learn in high school or college from Bill Gates' book "Business @ The Speed of Thought"

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 100 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn both.

Read all 11 rules here Retain Young People