“If Isaac Newton had made YouTube videos about gravity, I wouldn’t have to!” Khan said at a recent TED Talk.īut rather than quarterbacking from the sidelines, Khan is intentionally getting in the game. Self-effacing ('Any joker in his closet can reach millions of people'), fast-talking, and pragmatic, Khan spins his big-picture views about education in the same way he describes subjects like valence electrons or mortgage-backed securities: as a bemused observer pointing out the obvious. As former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein recently noted, 'Sal Khan has 50 million people on a site that doesn’t sell sex.' He's the charismatic brainiac who's created more than 2,000 instructional videos about everything from photosynthesis to the Bay of Pigs invasion. If you're curious at all about the future of education, you should know about Salman Khan.

Salman Khan's library of free instructional videos has reached millions of people, and now his videos are reaching into classrooms.

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