"Find someone better than you" or even better teach so those who learn can exceed your expectations. Randy had multiple points on how important it is for your students to love what they are doing. If the students are learning and figuring material on their own then your methods of teaching are successful. This concept would be the reason on why I will be a different teacher. I want to fill my kids up with assignments they can figure out on their own. It's important to allow your students to solve the problem on their own or they will easily forget the solution if it is handed to them.
Don't shoot down your child's creativity. Let them live a life with independent thoughts. Some things aren't worth the fight, argument or disciplining. Fun is the most important priority in life. Believing in your students is the key to their success. He couldn't have said any of these things any better. A teacher's goal should be to further your students mind into something they never knew they could achieve. Don't give up on what you believe in. Most of all don't lose faith in a child.
Money isn't the solution. Get out, live life and have fun. Live up to your full potential and that is what I would like to get across to my students as a teacher. To dream and have goals for your life and its not about reaching every single goal exactly as you may have planned but learning and experiencing along the way. It was obvious to not complain, work hard and be prepared. All of these are the right things and as Randy said all the right things tend to lead to good things happening.
I agree with you, Randy Pausch is truly a brilliant man. The brick wall metaphor was one of my favorite parts of his lecture. It would be great if, like you said, we could teach kids that brick walls aren't always meant to keep people out, but to help them realize how much they want something.
ReplyDeleteYou wouldn't even believe how much I agree with your statement, "Money isn't the solution." I would love to be able to pass that one on to our kids. Everyone thinks that money is so important, but really, it's not. It takes so much more than money to be successful, but most kids believe that if you just have enough money, it doesn't matter what you do. They don't realize that you have to " not complain, work hard and be prepared," as you said.
I enjoyed reading your blog post. I only noticed one grammar mistake--"would be the reason on why"--where it seems like the "on" isn't really needed. Otherwise, everything's good.
The reason we include this video is to inspire you to bust through those brick walls, to raise the bars, to execute effective head fakes and much more. I hope you will do these things when you are a teacher.
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