For many years now, a motivating text has been walking over the network, which, as indicated in the preamble, one of the richest people in the world has said at his meeting with schoolchildren. We checked whether Gates said this.

According to the popular text, Gates “believes that daily training in optimism and political correctness forms a generation that is far from reality, and this inevitably leads to failures in the adult world.” The following are 11 principles that he offers in return. In short, they are as follows:

Rule 1. Life is unfair, get used to it!
Rule 2. The world does not give a damn about your self -esteem.
Rule 3. You will not receive $60,000 per year immediately after school. You will not have a satellite phone in the car until you earn on them.
Rule 4. Do you think the teacher is too demanding? Wait for you to become the boss.
Rule 5. Serve hamburgers no lower than your dignity. Your grandfathers and grandmothers called this opportunity.
Rule 6. If you got into a puddle, this is not the fault of your parents, do not whimper, learn from mistakes.
Rule 7. Before your birth, your parents were not such bores as now, but they became them, paying for your bills. Before you start saving the world from the generation of your parents, clean the toilet in your own room.
Rule 8. Your school, perhaps, ended up with division into leaders and losers, but life - no.
Rule 9. Life is not divided into semester. You will not have summer holidays.
Rule 10. Television is not a real life. In fact, people usually have to go to work, and not sit at a cafe table.
Rule 11. Be courteous with cramps and botanists. It is possible that soon you will work for one of them.

Bill Gates's rules are widely used on the network as one list ("Komsomolskaya Pravda", "Belarusian partisan", OBOZREVATEL), and in the form of separate quotes (Focus.ua, Citaty.info, "My landmark"). As is often the case with motivating texts, the selection is very popular in social networks. It is also known in the West - for example, it is found on the sites of prestigious American universities. In the east, in particular in India, the selection has entered some Biographical Books About Bill Gates.

Firstly, even a fluent study of the original text indicates a number of gross mistakes that have entered the Russian translation. For example, in the fourth rule, “Wait Till You Get a Boss” means “until you have a boss”, and not “when you become a boss you”. The word Closet appears in the tenth rule means “cabinet”, not “toilet”. Well, “You'll End Up Working for One” from the last rule to translate correctly how “you will ultimately work for one of them,” and not “soon”.

The co -founder of Microsoft, the entrepreneur and philanthropist Bill Gates never avoided the opportunity to share the secrets of his success. His book "Business with the speed of thought" At one time, she became a bestseller and continues to be published in high circulations. He also has advice regarding the education of adolescents - so, a list from the network is walking on the network Three principlesthat Gates talked about in various interview And who guided his parents:

1. Engage in charity and public work, introducing children to these activities.
2. Give children independence enough.
3. To teach the child not to give up in case.

However, a similar list of tips directly to adolescents, and even at least some kind of selection that interests us, is neither in an interview or in the books of Gates. On some sites and in books indicated Even a specific school in the California town of Visylia, where Gates allegedly read out his inspirational speech to the graduates. But the leadership of the school at one time refuted Information about such an event.

Moreover, the earliest preserved publications of the collection of rules on the network do not contain any mention of the American billionaire. This, in particular, publication Journalist Ann Landers in Atlanta Constitution on September 21, 1997, a little later reprinted on the Internet. In May 2000, a similar article Landers reached already Chicago Tribune. If you look closely, you can notice that some rules on the list do not coincide with the selection we are considering, and there are 10 of them there. The first attribution of the rules of Bill Gates took place, apparently, in July 2000 in the periodical edition The Atlanta Journal and Constitution.

Who then the author of this motivating text? As it turned out, at one time it was written by a conservative politician and journalist from Visconsin Charles Six. For the first time, “some rules that children will not teach at school” appeared in the newspaper San Diego Union Tribune On September 19, 1996, and there were these principles 14 - hence some discrepancies between reprints. Some sources are erroneous They saythat the selection has entered his book 1995 "The lodging of our children: why American children are satisfied with themselves, but do not know how to read, write and add numbers." In fact, Cyix continued to print the selection only in newspapers until 2007, when he came out book "50 rules that children will not be taught at school: real antidotes from surface education." But Bill Gates has nothing to do with these principles.