Read the excerpt from The Last Lecture.
Based on this excerpt, Randy Pausch believes that his
students
So I called up my mentor, and I called up Andy Van Dam.
And I said, Andy, I just gave a two-week assignment, and
they came back and did stuff that if I had given them a whole
semester I would have given them all As. Sensei, what do I
do? [laughter] And Andy thought for a minute and he said,
you go back into class tomorrow and you look them in the
eye and you say, "Guys, that was pretty good, but I know
you can do better." [laughter] And that was exactly the right
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. And boy was that
good advice because they just kept going
need strict limits in order to succeed.
are capable of completing any task.
possess a great deal of potential.
often change their life goals.