Khan Academy: A Constantly Growing Universe
The Khan Academy video on the normal distribution above, was uploaded 3 days ago. As of today, there are 821 videos at Khan Academy on YouTube. The goal and ongoing mission of Khan Academy is to provide videos to "help anyone learn anything they want to learn".
As ambitious and impressive as it is, Khan Academy is just one man's attempt to help increase the human intellectual capital of the planet. The internet makes this kind of free, distributed, long-distance, learn-at-your-own-pace education much easier to provide. But it is the human mind of Salman Khan that conceived, created, and committed his time to making Khan Academy work.
Only a few humans, relatively speaking, possess the multi-disciplinary knowledge, expertise, and competence that the creator of Khan Academy possesses. But humans are capable of teaming up to provide a broad range of shared expertise, insight, wisdom, and experience across many different fields of knowledge. It is becoming possible to give oneself an incredibly broad education for the cost of your time and internet access. Thousands of capable humans are committed to making that option possible for you. If you know of someone who might benefit from their efforts, pass it on.
Labels: internet, Khan Academy, Online education
posted by al fin at 10:06 am
2 Comments:
When I think of how stifling regular education can be, I end up shuddering thinking how much we are held back by that asinine system. Homeschooling, private schooling, or even no schooling at all are looking to be better choices.
The US could have a far freer society, with lower taxes, more creativity, and more children if this monster is slain.
By "this monster", I assume you are referring to the current government educational system.
The problem with slaying that particular dragon is that the full force of the US government can be brought to bear to defend and prop it up.
In that sense, there is a monster behind the monster which is more fearsome still. How many more monsters are there yet to find?
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