LearnHub

I pay for learning when I need it. I don’t think its a oxymoron to be a teacher as a business. If what you like to do is help other people why shouldn’t you get payed? I’d love to teach for free but you got to make money to live.

I think it just becomes a problem when its more about the money than the teaching,

How refreshing, Andrew! If your whole generation continues to grow this line of thinking, I predict we’ll finally SEE the changes in education that I’ve been working hard for for 35 years…

Where do you suppose the idea came from that teaching is something you should do for the “love” of it so you just have to take a vow of poverty if you love teaching? I read last week about a new charter school on the East Coast that has worked out a plan to pay teachers $125,000 a year and provide appropriate annual professional development… I wonder why this is such a revolutionary idea… But it is… and a rare one.

Until things turn around and head in a direction that makes sense, it just seems logical to me that people who love teaching need to set themselves up in knowledge marketplaces like this so they can make a fair financial exchange for the value they have to offer others.

you did something daring and out of box. the way things keep on moving, books cannot keep pace with them, they become history. the conventional system as we know is a compromise between secuirity and liking and the learners are always there your time gets saturated but no the mind. this is because you yourself learn faster and more to offer than conventionally it can be absorbed and recognised as aknowledge. these are the feelings you earn being bit ahead of time. businesses today are more woried about keeping with the time. so its nice way.

I see it happening. I do like the face-to-face interaction, but virtual learning/teaching/schools are rocketing right at us. I don’t know if it was someone on this site or another site, but I read it within the past two weeks or so. “Computers won’t put teachers out of work. Computers will put teachers who don’t know how to use computers out of work.”

That will happen very quickly.

The quote comes from my 7 Places Report, Ron.

And…whether or not we “like” the future…as you say, it’s coming right at us.

Rising fuel costs and global warming are NOT going away. We’re not going to stop meeting face to face… but we MUST make some hard decisions about when and where and how it’s profitable to do so, without wrecking the Earth. Facts are still facts.

USAirways just pulled out of both of the airports that are within a 200 mile radius of my house because it’s no longer profitable for them to serve so many remote regions. It’s a good time for people to start thinking about what something like this MEANS. It’s only one tiny piece of the big picture…but the principle at work is going to go all the way down to the heart of what we call “public” education.

These facts are the reason I began my offerings here. I look forward to the continuing conversation…