"If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea" -- Saint-Exupery

This is exactly what Numberphile does. Those who are hooked will find the resources on their own. They need a reason to look for them and Numberphile gives them one.

I believe that I have learned cumulatively double in the past 10 years from YouTube compared to what I learned in 6 years of middle and high school. And I don’t spend 8 hours per day on YouTube.

Plumbing, react, combinatorics, real analysis, python, c++, cad, micro and macro economics, reinforcement learning, to name just a few of the things I learned through YouTube.

We don’t give enough credit to what we take for granted today.

I simply don't care to gatekeep what counts as education. It has taught me things from videos I can still recall a decade later and pushed me to explore different areas of math I wouldn't have done otherwise.

It's education for whoever finds it educational

If topics are presented engagingly these efforts will no doubt inspire the next generation.

Young people are curious, sometimes all they need is a spark and to be introduced to a new topic in an engaging way. These forms of content deliver that spark.