Randy Pauch's last Lecture

For those of you that are not familiar with the Name Randy Pauch. He was a computer Science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He gave a lecture called the "last lecture". The concept behind the lecture was to give a lecture if it was the last one you would ever give and ironically, at the time he was dying of cancer and it was truly his last lecture. It has become such a national phenomenon because of the powerfulness of his speech.
In his lecture he talks about his life. He goes through his dreams one by one and told about how he either attained them or gave it a good valiant effort throughout his life. He is a man of great strength and wisdom. He had away of looking at the world differently then most people would and continued that outlook even as he was dying and living his last couple of months. What I love about him is that he loves to learn and even more loves to teach.
I enjoyed listening to Randy talk about his students and teachers that he had throughout the years and the amount of things that he took in and learned from them. He had a life in which he took advantage of every opportunity to make it the best he could make it. It is so inspirational. It helps me to see things like that as a future educator. He makes me want to strive to be more like him.
A quote from Randy Pauch is " Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted". What a way to look at the world. Another great quote from him is "Brick walls are not to keep us out, but to show how much you want it". He really was a man of dream making and fulfilling dreams. He knew how to live life to the fullest. I truly feel he has been one of the best role models as an educator that I have seen. I want to strive to teach like him, and live my life like his. He truly is missed now that he is gone, but he has definitely left his thumb print on many lives in this world!