Rock Star Professors
A ton of people sent me this link last week so I had to blog about it!
At 71, Physics Professor Is a Web Star
There are a lot of Professor Lewins out there. Some teach at places like MIT. Other toil in even greater (relative) obscurity.
Had an interesting conversation with my girlfriend on the subject of the direction of media. There’s definitely a lot of trash out there these days and it seems that society is increasingly drawn to fluff, pettiness and shocking vulgarity. Not all of us of course but the whole the picture ain’t pretty…
I’m a big fan of the notion that instead of kicking at the darkness you make the light brighter. That’s what’s happening here. 99% of the planet learned physics from someone a lot duller and less passionate than Mr. Lewin. And that’s a shame because many of us don’t have the same fire for these ideas that he’s instilling in students. Which is also exactly why this is so cool…millions of people learning from Lewin? In the future that’ll happen. Kids from China will access his lectures…oh wait, they already are.
What we’re attempting at eduFire is exactly the same thing. We’re trying to make the light brighter by elevating the best teachers on the planet.
Is it possible that one day they’ll be blogs and magazine following hot teachers and detailing their techniques?
Is it possible for an eBay-esque ecosystem to rise up around education?
Is it possible for a teacher to make a million dollars a year?
Yup.
It is.
Not easy. But possible.
Which is why it’s 2:15 AM on a Saturday night…er, Sunday morning and I’m so fired up about the opportunity to help make all that happen that I can’t sleep.
One Comment
- 1. sundeep ahuja said:
I look forward to the day when eduFire allows the best teachers to earn as much as (more than?) the best actors, athletes, and the like who right now have one thing teachers don’t: distribution.
