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The end of the politically correct era?
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23/05/2002 08:21:52
 
 
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23/05/2002 06:51:41
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Family
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Education
Miscellaneous
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>Bill Gates 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. This could be called "The Bill Gates Doctrine of Future Reality".
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>To anyone with kids of any age, or anyone who has ever been a kid, here's some advice Bill Gates recently dished out at a high school speech about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. (The "Bill Gates Doctrine" Of Future Reality For Today's Kids)
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>Unfortunatelly he doesn't say when all this started...
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>Fernando

Gates never said it. Here's an excerpt from Snopes on the subject:

"This list is the work of Charles J. Sykes, author of the book Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, Or Add. (The list has appeared in newspapers, although not necessarily in this book.)"

Tamar
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