"Wright's Law" -a HS physics teacher gives the greatest lesson of all

[Are_grits_groceries]

Laws of Physics Can’t Trump the Bonds of Love

Jeffrey Wright is well known around his high school in Louisville, Ky., for his antics as a physics teacher, which include exploding pumpkins, hovercraft and a scary experiment that involves a bed of nails, a cinder block and a sledgehammer.

But it is a simple lecture — one without props or fireballs — that leaves the greatest impression on his students each year. The talk is about Mr. Wright’s son and the meaning of life, love and family.

It has become an annual event at Louisville Male Traditional High School (now coed, despite its name), and it has been captured in a short documentary, “Wright’s Law,” which recently won a gold medal in multimedia in the national College Photographer of the Year competition, run by the University of Missouri.
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Watch a video and read the rest:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/24/laws-of-physics-cant-trump-the-bonds-of-love/?smid=tw-share

Yeah, nothing to see here but a slothful union slug.
The lives he has reached in some way are innumerable.

[Leopolds Ghost]

1. This is not the guy who passed away?

A professor who was dying of cancer gave a similar lecture that was his last lecture and it became a popular video that he was asked to publish.

[Are_grits_groceries]

2. No

That was a college professor from Carnegie Mellon named Randy Pausch. He called it 'The Last Lecture.'

[Leopolds Ghost]

4. Thank you. n/t

[Heidi]

3. Kick!