Duncanville High School sophomore Jeff Bliss has become an overnight cyber celebrity for verbally berating his world history teacher. Displaying behavior that would normally be frowned upon, Bliss is being lauded for standing up for his and classmates’ educations. In a YouTube video uploaded yesterday, Bliss can be seen ranting against a teacher identified as Mrs. Phung for her lack of enthusiasm in the classroom.

Apparently Bliss had just been asked to leave the classroom for asking too many questions when a fellow student began secretly recording his exchange with the teacher. Bliss left, but not without telling Phung she needed to start teaching students rather than considering them “a paycheck” and passing out packets every day, assumedly for assigned reading.

Just get up and teach us instead of handing us a freaking packet, yo,” Bliss said. “There’s kids in here that don’t learn like that, they need to learn face-to-face.”

What might have been considered a disrespectful tirade soon became a rally cry for education, when Bliss told Phung how she could make students want to learn.

You want kids to get excited for this? You gotta come in here and make ‘em excited,” Bliss said. “You want a kid to change and start doing better? You gotta touch his freakin’ heart.”

His outburst elevated to sermon-like proportions as he told Phung why her job was so much more important that “her paycheck.”

This is my country’s future, and my education,” he said.

Pretty profound for a high-school sophomore, right? Well, Bliss is no ordinary 10^th grader. The 18-year-old from Texas actually dropped out of school his freshman year, but recently returned, vowing to take school seriously.

Not only has the video of Bliss’ outburst gone viral, but Twitter is buzzing about the incident, and an Indiegogo project has even popped up to fund Bliss’ college education. Why? We’ve all had teachers that had obviously lost their passion and given the entire profession a bad name. I had them in college, which was really a pisser since I was paying big bucks for those classes. And in a time when so many of our youth seem to have no passion about anything other than video games and social networking, it’s refreshing to see a young adult take a stand for his education.

Pastor Jeff Bliss need to go around to schools puttin teachers on blast real talk lol

— Billy White (@SpikeChester) May 9, 2013

Way to go. It takes guts to change the world. Good for you @Real_Jeff_Bliss

— Tony S. (@Hoisttech55) May 9, 2013

S/O To Jeff Bliss, For The Enlightenment! All Teachers Of ANY Level Needs To Take What This Kid Said To Heart When It Comes To Education!

— Ebonyy!. (@ehBONITArose) May 9, 2013