Will the English professor of the future be an entrepreneur?

That’s what Andrew Keen, author of Cult of the Amateur seems to think:

Rather than learning to quote Shakespeare or W.E.B. Du Bois, I would advise aspiring humanities scholars to learn how to build their own intellectual brands and distribute their ideas more broadly and relevantly. Just as the death of newspapers is forcing smart young journalists to become self-employed entrepreneurs, so the imminent crisis of academic humanity departments, which will eventually do away with the archaic tenure system, offers a great opportunity to rethink what it means to be a professional educator in the 21st century.

This might drive the disruption of the educational business model a little faster. Which is fine – because the model of $50,000 per year private schools might go the way of the million-dollar fixer-upper one-bedroom condo.