The $4 Million Teacher

It seems the best and brightest go into just about any field other than teaching. That’s not a knock on teachers. It’s the truth about the people with brains following the money. Can you blame them? Make education a profitable private enterprise instead of subsistence living and you’ll see the difference in the quality of graduates.

Kim Ki-hoon earns $4 million a year in South Korea, where he is known as a rock-star teacher—a combination of words not typically heard in the rest of the world. Mr. Kim has been teaching for over 20 years, all of them in the country’s private, after-school tutoring academies, known as hagwons….continue reading (via NextDraft)

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

This is my problem with learning to code: I want to be fluent tomorrow. I want to make something now. I don’t want to be good in 10 years…see below.

Why is everyone in such a rush? Walk into any bookstore, and you’ll see how to Teach Yourself Java in 7 Days alongside endless variations offering to teach Visual Basic, Windows, the Internet, and so on in a few days or hours. I did the following power search at Amaz…continue reading (via NextDraft)

Is This Worth Reading?

Tongue in cheek, this really is worth reading. At least I’m hoping that most items posted on this site are. I really do. I read sites every day and want to pass them along as I see fit. I may struggle with over or under posting. On one hand, I read a lot. A. Lot. On the other, I’m a bum when it comes to keeping things updated. We’ll see how this goes…

My current reading list includes excerpts from (but not limited to and in no particular order):

Lifehacker
Daring Fireball
TechCrunch
The Simple Dollar
NextDraft
The Wirecutter/The Sweethome
Iowa Girl Eats
Tested

I’ll do my best to credit the site that was linked or the person who sent me the post, but I apologize in advance if I missed yours. If you think I’m missing out, suggest a site in the comments. I’ll get to them as I can.