I don’t know what happened to me, but I got kind of emotional while reading this post I found on BoingBoing! Backstory: Kid meets friendly man on the streets of the Bronx whose looking for new students to teach “electrical engineering” to. Apparently, free classes are taught on a whole variety of subjects in the man’s makeshift lab.
Go ahead and cycle through the photo set to see all the weird stuff in his underground bunker, and take special note of the empty seats ….
It just made me sad that someone is so desperate to pass on the knowledge they have and that he’s probably going to find it difficult to find people who a) are interested b) comfortable learning in such a nontraditional environment.
Yeah, so I thought I’d just pass along the link here, because I find it really inspiring and noble what he is doing.
man, thats so radical. jk and i were talking about trying to come up with some kind of way for people with an interest and knowledge in subjects (like cars) to teach other people who want to learn about it in an informal way.
the person teaching would get the benefit of being able to talk about shit and teach people who actually care and then we would get free education. and you could like pay them with beer or something. i think if we worked out a simple system it could actually work