educators best serve students ...

educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can’t accurately do that, how can we tell if we’re getting better or worse?
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 Randy Pausch

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If I was able to tell my story with the passion I felt, my lecture might help others find a path to fulfilling their own dreams.
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 Randy Pausch
All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: "We worked hard at it.
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 Randy Pausch
To be cliché, death is a part of life and it's going to happen to all of us. I have the blessing of getting a little bit of advance notice and I am able to optimize my use of time down the home stretch.
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 Randy Pausch
I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.
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 Randy Pausch
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.
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 Randy Pausch