When Teachers Become Rock Stars

This item from today's Financial Times illustrates the confluence of a hyper-competitive education marketplace (Hong Kong) and a bidding war for top teaching talent. I am reminded that some have long argued that university professors give up more in exchange for tenure than they gain; in short, the best among them - the "rock stars" - could command rock star-level salary premiums. Maybe the story is a harbinger of things to come in education. That, or a sign of the apocalypse.