If you read Randy Pausch's The Last Lecture, you will find out why every human life is beautiful and special. You will want to achieve your highest goal and motivate other people to enjoy their lives. According to the official website of The Last Lecture, the author describes Randy Pausch and The Last Lecture as "...computer science professor Randy Pausch stepped in front of an audience of 400 people at Carnegie Mellon University to deliver a last lecture called “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” With slides of his CT scans beaming out to the audience, Randy told his audience about the cancer that is devouring his pancreas and that will claim his life in a matter of months. On the stage that day, Randy was youthful, energetic, handsome, often cheerfully, darkly funny. He seemed invincible. But this was a brief moment, as he himself acknowledged."
The full video of "Really Achieve Your Childhood Dreams":
I believe that all children, no matter what their nationalities, backgrounds, and languages are, are capable of learning and contributing to society when education provides enough support and guidance to them. The role of education is to create a safe, caring school environment that appreciates and respects the diversity of individuals and groups; and that increases the learning experience and maximizes achievement for all students, including students with disabilities. The role of educators is to provide efficient instruction and assessment to students so that they develop their potentials and social-interactive skills. Also, educators must work with parents, caregivers, communities, and business as partners to fully support students’ learning and development. Thus, students must graduate from school with a comprehension of the role of the technology in society and be prepared to integrate their potentials and social-interactive skills efficiently into jobs and careers in the twenty-first century.
My favorite quotes
"Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life." Alex Noble.
"If something can go wrong or turn out inconveniently it will" Murphy's Law
"Tomorrow is always the businest day of the week" Jonathon Lazear
"If you can't write it, you don't know it." Michael Bloomberg
"...You should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least - at least I mean what I say - that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see!'" -Alice in Wonderland
"It's not that anybody is indispensable; it is that people have put so much into this, have taken us in the right direction - schools, crime, the economy, cultural institutions, parks, openness and accountability - and every time I look around, I think there's so much more we can do." New York mayor Michael Bloomberg's speaking at a news conference (Page B5, The New York Times , 10/3/2008).