Re: [Phys-L] MOOC: Edx Offers Mechanics course by Prof.Walter Lewin

[Marty Weiss <martweiss@comcast.net>]

I missed this the first time around.  John, do you have any idea what preparation for a performance entails? Not to mention the hours and hours preparing one's voice or musical skills to perform for a major orchestra?   Learning your instrument to that point is no feat to be brushed off by anyone who has never done it.  The hours to prepare alone are more than even the best prepared athlete and on the night of the performance they must be at their best... no excuses there, unlike a cleanup hitter who strikes out with the bases loaded or a running back who fumbles on the one year line, or a basketball player who misses a free throw at the buzzer.  There is no room for error like that when you are performing Beethoven's fifth and it comes to your solo.  They are worth every penny!

Likewise, Tyson... the man didn't get where he is today by hanging around the observatory for a few hours... Let him get paid what the market will bear... even if it is a pre-written lecture.  One doesn't go to a lecture expecting to have your life changed, but to learn something you didn't know before.  

How many of you have actually attended a Lewin lecture?  I have attended several and the man is an amazing teacher!  Worth every cent he is paid and worth his weight in gold for MIT!    

On Jun 20, 2013, at 7:52 PM, Bernard Cleyet wrote:

> On 2013, Jun 20, , at 10:34, John Clement <clement@hal-pc.org> wrote:
>
> > If you go to an opera with a
> > star, the star gets a large salary for a few hours performance plus a
> > rehearsal.  How much does a star athlete get/game?  If you look at the
> > amount of training and preparation, Tysen may be overpriced compared to a
> > trained singer or dancer who has to continually work at their art.  Tysen
> > merely has to write and deliver a lecture, and he probably has a number of
> > boilerplates ready.  He may be underpaid relative to a star athlete.
>
> The athletes must keep fit tho.
>
> I viewed an archive of the SF Symp. strike of a few years ago wherein the presenter (Salinas local TV, naturely) derided that they "got" $165k and they wanted more!   Ha!  Most musicians good enuf for a major orchestra started < six and pr hours daily forever.  
>
> bc  retired w/ > 1/2 that, so the musicians were not overpaid.
>
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