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Sal Khan
American
Educator
Born:
Oct 11
,
1976
Education
Learning
People
School
World
You
Related authors:
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Booker T. Washington
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Louisiana was as close to South Asia as the United States could get: it had spicy food, humidity, giant cockroaches, and a corrupt government.
Sal Khan
Government
Food
States
Giant
Spicy
Spicy Food
Corrupt
Could
Had
South
South Asia
Close
Louisiana
Get
Asia
Cockroaches
United
United States
Humidity
We want to make access to a world-class education like clean drinking water or electricity.
Sal Khan
Education
Water
Drinking
World-Class
Clean
Drinking Water
Like
Make
Access
Want
Electricity
Many of the best teachers I know are being laid off because their unions value seniority over intellect, passion, creativity, and drive.
Sal Khan
Best
Creativity
Passion
Value
Drive
Unions
Over
Know
Because
Intellect
Off
Seniority
Being
Laid
Teachers
Many
If you're going to charge someone for something, you have to show them value for it.
Sal Khan
You
Value
Charge
Someone
Something
Going
Them
Show
No one goes on a direct path, even though it sometimes feels like your peers might be racing ahead. Everyone's trying to figure it out. But if you just put yourself out there, step out of your comfort zone, establish yourself in terms of skills, mentorship, but leave space for your passions, then you're going to turn out pretty well.
Sal Khan
You
Yourself
Sometimes
Path
Space
Everyone
Peers
Though
Out
Pretty
Direct
No-One
Step
Put
Feels
Like
Terms
Well
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Leave
Passions
Trying
Goes
Going
Just
Establish
Might
Turn
Then
Racing
Skills
Your
Figure
Even
Zone
The ideal direction is using something like Khan Academy for every student to work at their own pace, to master concepts before moving on, and then the teacher using Khan Academy as a tool so that you can have a room of 20 or 30 kids all working on different things, but you can still kind of administrate that chaos.
Sal Khan
Work
Teacher
Moving On
You
Master
Before
Own
Every
Tool
Chaos
Khan
Kids
Kind
Something
Direction
Student
Ideal
Like
Academy
Concepts
Still
Different
Pace
Moving
Room
Then
Working
Using
Different Things
Things
A one-size-fits-all lecture is not the way to go about education.
Sal Khan
Education
Way
One-Size-Fits-All
About
Go
Lecture
Formal education must change. It needs to be brought into closer alignment with the world as it actually is, into closer harmony with the way human beings actually learn and thrive.
Sal Khan
Education
Needs
Change
World
Thrive
Harmony
Way
Alignment
Must
Brought
Learn
Closer
Human
Human Beings
Formal
Formal Education
Beings
Actually
As technology plays a major role inside and outside the classroom, we want to make sure education innovation is accessible.
Sal Khan
Education
Technology
Innovation
Inside
Classroom
Outside
Major
Major Role
Make
Sure
Accessible
Role
Want
Plays
I never viewed technology as a replacement for the human experience. I viewed it as something that could liberate the human experience.
Sal Khan
Technology
Experience
Liberate
Something
Could
Never
Replacement
Human
Human Experience
Viewed
Being a billionaire is sort of passe.
Sal Khan
Sort
Being
Billionaire
I am infamously bad at asking for money.
Sal Khan
Money
Bad
Am
Asking
If a student has access to a great school, Khan Academy can supercharge it. It should help a well-resourced school, and if you don't have that, then Khan Academy can have even a bigger impact. But I don't see it as replacing the actual schools... we want to empower teachers and fill in the gaps.
Sal Khan
Great
You
School
Khan
See
Impact
Student
Academy
Schools
Empower
Access
Replacing
Want
Bigger
Then
Should
Teachers
Help
Even
Gaps
Fill
Actual
I'm the 'Dear Abby' of math problems. But if you understand something, shouldn't you be able to explain it? Isn't that the whole point?
Sal Khan
You
Problems
Able
Something
Point
Understand
Dear
Math
Explain
Whole
I've already got a beautiful wife, a great son, and a house. What else do you need?
Sal Khan
Beautiful
Great
You
Son
Wife
Else
House
Beautiful Wife
Got
Need
I am personally an idealist. I was lucky enough to follow my dreams in my own life, so you should definitely follow your dreams.
Sal Khan
Life
Dreams
You
Own
Enough
Definitely
Follow
Follow Your Dreams
My Own
Idealist
Am
Personally
Should
Your
Your Dreams
Lucky
The answer is pretty clear that your intelligence can actually be changed.
Sal Khan
Intelligence
Changed
Pretty
Clear
Answer
Your
Actually
Some of the beauty of a university is that every professor is given a lot of autonomy over what he or she does. That's also what makes it very hard for even a very forward-thinking president to change courses.
Sal Khan
Change
Beauty
Every
President
Some
Given
He
He Or She
Over
Also
She
Courses
Makes
Does
Lot
Very
Autonomy
Hard
Even
Professor
University
Suffice it to say that our over-reliance on testing is based largely on habit, wishful thinking, and leaps of faith.
Sal Khan
Faith
Thinking
Our
Say
Habit
Wishful
Wishful Thinking
Leaps
Testing
Based
Largely
Suffice
Every school is different and serves different populations.
Sal Khan
School
Every
Different
Serve
I'm a fan of hard science fiction, which is science fiction that is possible.
Sal Khan
Science
Possible
Science Fiction
Fiction
Fan
Which
Hard
I'm big fan of soulful music - classic rock with a folk-ish twist.
Sal Khan
Music
Big
Classic
Classic Rock
Soulful
Rock
Big Fan
Fan
Twist
I was always asking people about their work. How do you do a job like that? Do you love it? What does it pay? I was lucky to have access to people who could answer my questions. Otherwise, my life could have turned out very differently.
Sal Khan
Life
Work
Love
You
People
Job
My Life
Pay
Otherwise
Out
About
Could
Like
Access
Answer
Does
Always
How
Questions
Very
Turned
Asking
Who
Lucky
Differently
One of the biggest ways to level the playing field is to give all young people the same context on what opportunities are out there. And that means touching on some of the questions that are a little taboo in society: How much money do you make? What are your stresses? What would you do differently if you could?
Sal Khan
You
People
Money
Opportunities
Young
Field
Society
Ways
Out
Would
Some
Taboo
Give
Touching
Could
Make
How
Context
How Much
How Much Money
Questions
Same
Biggest
Young People
Little
Much
Means
Your
Differently
Level
Playing
Playing Field
Stresses
My personal narrative - I was lucky early on in my career to have some really strong mentors. I didn't realize it at the time, but that's what really built me up.
Sal Khan
Time
Me
Strong
Some
Mentors
Narrative
Built
Up
Personal
Realize
Really
Lucky
Early
Career
Creating a clear and engaging video explanation of a complex concept is a great way to demonstrate mastery and to help others understand and love the subject, too.
Sal Khan
Love
Great
Help Others
Too
Others
Way
Complex
Clear
Concept
Great Way
Mastery
Understand
Demonstrate
Subject
Explanation
Video
Creating
Engaging
Help
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