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One great engineer can impact the world with one lifetime, while one great teacher can impact the world with (class size x years taught) lifetimes.
by gehant 16y ago
One great engineer can impact the world with one lifetime, while one great teacher can impact the world with (class size x years taught) lifetimes.
- barry-cotter 16y agoOne great engineers contributions last forever, assuming they become part of a product that is stable enough to be reverse engineered (so software and physical both count) and is proportionate to Contribution*product. One great teachers contribution rots due to reversion to the mean. The average teacher almost certainly has a greater marginal effect than the engineer. The 90th percentile engineer kicks the teachers ass.