His boss, the hedge-fund analyst Dan Wohl, "appreciated it". Then he began tutoring the junior analysts, "because they were straight-A students who really hadn't learned finance". "I wrote the software from the office," he says. The first tutorials for his cousin Nadia started there. Then he went into the hedge-fund business, although strangely enough he taught within the hedge fund. “So for the back half of my high school years I was taking classes at university mostly math, but some physics and chemistry too.”Īs a result he went to university and obtained three degrees. I started to meet kids who were more high-performing.” Coming back from one of these gatherings, which had maths at their heart, “I called Loyola University in New Orleans and asked if I could take some classes.” They finally relented, even though Sal was so young.
Then I started to realise how competitive the world is. The school did have mechanisms in place for students who wanted to push themselves.”Īs for him, “I was a good but not super serious student until about 10th grade until I was about 14 or 15. “To be fair, there were a number of teachers there who were very involved.
Khan grew up in Louisiana, and went to public school in a state that, as he says himself, “regularly ranked 49th out of 50” when it came to its schools. His father was from Bangladesh, his mother from India. He just had his third child, Azad, some weeks ago, and is not long back from parental leave.īut this educational superstar did not have a stellar education himself. Lesson time can then be used to explore the subject in depth and approach any problems with an individual pupil or with small groups of pupils.īesides everything else, the 38-year-old embodies the American dream. In the information age it is logical to expect basic learning to be done by video before a pupil arrives in class. He talks about the concept of “flipped learning”. He has some radical ideas about how education will proceed. The Khan Academy in Kuna Middle School, Idaho
Khan has given up his job working with a hedge fund to administer his not-for-profit academy. Now Bill Gates uses the Khan Academy to educate his children. He received so many requests for more sessions that he decided to post the tutorials on YouTube. Khan began by tutoring his cousin, Nadia, in mathematics. Here is education that takes account of the digital age and that starts from the premise that schools should be laboratories, not prisons. On January 5th, the 2015 Mathletes Challenge with the Khan Academy returns to Ireland. The motto of the Khan Academy, the online school he founded pretty much by accident, is: “A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.” Even in the 21st century it is a radical idea.
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