What Is The Moral Lesson Of The Last Lecture By Randy Pausch

If we were stranded on an island by ourself, as a baby without anyone to learn from, what would we learn? Most likely very little. Much like when John Donne, a famous philosopher says: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main”. What can be taken away from both the question and quote is exactly this - humans were meant to be together. This way we can learn ‘common sense’, important lessons, and morals from others and go on to reshare them. Not only to better ourselves but also mankind. In The Last Lecture this concept is displayed in some of the lessons Randy Pausch has learned, and shares with the reader. Such as how his parents, professor, coach and many others have all helped him become an improved version of himself. When Pausch was in high school he had asked his parents if he could paint images of things he found important to him, on his bedroom walls. With some reluctance from his mother, finally both parents had agreed to let their son paint on his walls. This simple act of allowing their child to express himself, had boosted some of Pausch's confidence in knowing it was okay, to express himself in an ‘unconventional way’. Later on, answering some viewer questions on abc news, Pausch had answered to one in particular …show more content…
Coach Graham had not only taught the fundamentals of football to these young children but also valuable lessons of life, this itself was a head fake Coach had played to plant seeds of success into these children. Pausch had later used this idea of the “head fake” to make his legacy. A computer software that teaches young girls how to program while showing them, that they are simply creating a story, this software was called Alice, which he has passed on to some of his students to keep it alive from generation to