"50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School: Real-World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education"
A sneak peek at Sykes’ sage advice:
1. Life is not fair. Get used to it.
7. If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure, so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he’s not going to ask you how you FEEL about it.
15. Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping. They called it “opportunity.”
42. Change the oil.
43. Don’t let the success of others depress you.
48. Tell yourself the story of your life. Have a point.
9. Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life hasn’t.
14. Looking like a slut does not empower you.
29. Learn to deal with hypocrisy.
32. Television is not real life.
38. Look people in the eye when you meet them.
47. You are not perfect, and you don’t have to be.
50. Enjoy this while you can.
Sykes says the rules are a "blunt contrast to the thumb sucking, feel good infantilism that has become so common in American education and culture." (more) (more books by Sykes)
