The speech also was very inspiring because he motivates you throughout the speech about following you dreams. He does not feel anyone should not have dreams and not follow their dreams. He feels everyone should try to be happy everyday of their life and keep the negativity out of your life. He encourages everyone to strive hard at what ever dream your pursue and be the best you can at whatever you be.
Through his speech he tells many stories about his parents and how he blessed to have had such great, inspiring, and caring parents in his life. He talks about how strong and encouraging his father was. His father always talked to him about be the best you can be and to always find a way to help others. He also was told by his father to put others first. His father taught him to love and care for his family and to put God first.
Mr. Pausch was giving his last speech to an audience who was under the impression the speech was an inspirational speech for them but in turn it was intentionally given for Mr. Pausch children. This misinterpretation goes back to what Mr. Pausch stated in the beginning of his speech about when you are trying to teach a lesson have your audience think they are learning something else and in the end they will have learned the intended lesson.
Comment4kidsI enjoyed the video because I learned some teaching tips form it. As a teacher you have to be very detailed with students because they only do what you tell them to do. The students did not seem to understand the lesson that was being taught because the teachers only told them about the information that would be on the test. The students did not feel the other information in the lesson would be important to know so there for the teacher had a hard time going over the lesson because no one knew what he was talking about. This is a link to their blog
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The Last Lecture of Randy Pausch is indeed inspiring and filled with excellent tips for teachers. I am glad that you found it interesting and useful.
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I agree with you and Dr. Strange. Randy Pausch's lecture was definitely touching, motivating, inspiring! I loved how he touched on dreams and how important it is to follow any dreams you have. He did a wonderful job on encouraging people to be the best that they can be.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with you that his speech was very inspiring and that he motivates you to follow your dreams. You had great observations from this speech. Good job!
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