Today I learned that someone I used to watch every Saturday on Nickelodeon as a kid and was always fascinated by him and what he had to teach, passed yesterday and I completely missed and tribute they may have had on TV for him.

This teacher that I am speaking of has been teaching kids on television since 1951! I consider him to be one of the first to makes science FUN! This teacher taught me more about science than I learned in all my years of public school. Not because my teachers weren’t great, it was just that he made it so much fun. You wanted to watch, learn, and participate.

Yesterday the world lost a great teacher and he will be missed by a lot of people including myself. I think I am going to do a fun science experiment with my daughter today and maybe rent a DVD so my daughter can learn from one my greatest teachers.

Don “Mr. Wizard” Herbert (1910-2007)