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Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.

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Randy Pausch
Age: 47 †
Born: 1960
Born: October 23
Died: 2008
Died: July 25
Computer Scientist
Motivational Speaker
Pedagogue
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Baltimore
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Randy Frederick Pausch
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What he said was: You obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do a disservice by putting it anywhere. And boy was that good advice. Because what he said was, you obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do them a disservice by putting it anywhere.
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The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.
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The fact that fashion goes out of fashion and then comes back into fashion based solely on what a few people somewhere think they can sell, well to me, that’s insanity.
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To-Do lists help us break life into small steps.
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Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you.
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Time must be explicitly managed, like money.
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Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn’t
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Find the best in everybody. Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. It might even take years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting.
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No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time, it is often within your power to make them better
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The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.
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Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.
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I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.
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Don’t complain just work harder.
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Because you’re such a good salesman, and if you go work for a company, they’re going to use you as a salesman. If you’re going to be a salesman, you might as well be selling something worthwhile, like education
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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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Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.
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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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Well, you can’t have just some of me, Jai,” I told her. “You appreciate the part of me that didn’t get angry because two ‘things’ we own got hurt. But the flip side of that is my belief that you don’t repair things if they still do what they’re supposed to do. The cars still work. Let’s just drive ’em.
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The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!
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