This piece in the NY Times offers a nice counterpoint to some of the recent complaints about the stultifying state of most non-digital education. I pulled down some of the lecture video and added a few questions. The are other questions to poke at as well: what does it mean for the haves like MIT to hire such teachers and create such content while others get to may only be able to consume it on the Web? How is it that teaching like this get valued? Must it become public, superstar fare? Mostly, though, it's just nice to think about how teaching can take place outside of the digital box sometimes.