Teacher's love of life and physics inspires moving short film

12/27/2012

He teaches his Kentucky high school students physics with crazy experiments but teaches them life lessons by example. Such is his students' love for Jeffrey Wright that one graduate of Louisville Male Traditional High School, Zack Conkle, made a film about his former teacher. "I wanted to show people this guy is crazy and really amazing," he said. And it's not just his experiments with exploding pumpkins and sledgehammers that have won praise and adoration, but also his annual lectures on raising his special needs son, Adam. Did somebody say "O Captain, my captain?" [Source]

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