YouTube - Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

YouTube - Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams This is one lecture nobody should miss whether you are a teacher or a parent.One of the most inspiring one.This was shown in quest forum in first season but we are tempted to show it again.Let us see whether we overcome that temptation or it overcomes us.But I request anybody who is following my blogs to watch it at least once.(Duration might be a problem)

Genesis of the quest forum-A labour of love-part3

Now coming to second point –Knowledge and understanding of things (knowledge is not just data collection-but first part of knowledge is data collection-data collection can have many ways(reading books, watching TV, interacting with people who has already got data in that area of knowledge, internet etc)data collection should be followed by processing of that data once we do that we can say that we understand things. Very often one’s own data processing step could be faulty-we may see things with a jaundiced eye because of our personal biases and prejudices. There comes the importance of discussions and meetings of fellow seekers. Being an introvert for so long I never understood the importance this thing till recent times. So even though I was a seeker I was seeking it from inanimate sources. But lately I realized my folly and started seeking out. It can be a wonderful experience also. When we were in schools we were taught in Malayalam that ‘vidya’(knowledge) is only the treasure which when you share with others it increases. And it is never one way and it is always a mutually beneficial experience. That is why the central theme in quest is kept as that “whenever I come to the fountain to drink I find the living water itself thirsty;
And it drinks me while I drink it".(Gibran) It is enriching each other.

Genesis of the quest forum-A labour of love-part2

Why going public with QUEST?Is there any hidden agenda?To tell the truth there is nothing of that sort except for some head fakes in late Prof.Randy’s terminology.First thing first

As Gibran said that Life is indeed dark except when there is urge-(yearning or craving) and all that craving is blind (unwilling or unable to understand something) except when there is knowledge(clear awareness/understanding) and all that knowledge is vain(devoid of substance or meaning) except when there is work(a purposeful effort-physical or mental) and all work is empty(meaningless or lack vitality) except when there is love. Gibran says work is love made visible.So point number one -to make my love especially to my students in particular and humanity in general this action. So I claim it is a labour of love. For me love has never been( at least that is what I have been trying) a thread connecting two pegs but an aura engulfing all around. If Gandhi would like to call his auto-biography experiments with truth I would call my life story as experiments with love.