Correction

We recently ran a list of advice to high school students supposedly written by Bill Gates, This was not true according to AFP Fact Check:

A claim that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates penned a list of real-life rules for children and delivered them during a speech at a high school continues to circulate on social media at least 20 years after it first appeared online. Gates, however, was in no way involved in creating the list...

Gates, the claim says, delivered a speech at a high school where he used the occasion to bash contemporary education for its politically-correct teachings that were setting children up for failure.

The man behind the list is US author Charles J. Sykes, whose 1995 book “Dumbing Down Our Kids” was described as “a searing indictment of America’s secondary schools”... Sykes expanded even further in his 2007 book “50 Rules Kids Won’t Learn in School” and included his original list, although the order was rearranged. In the preface, he dedicated space to addressing the claims of authorship, stating that, while he was flattered to be associated with the billionaire philanthropist, Gates was not the author of his list.