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What you have in most education software is that they're catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience. ”
Our mission at Khan Academy is a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere, and college readiness is a crucial part of that. We want to help as many students as possible prepare for college and for life, and since the SAT measures preparedness for college, our partnership with the College Board is a natural fit. ”
A good traditional conceptual instruction is what I got from my better professors at MIT. They would be at a chalkboard, and they would literally be explaining something and working through a problem, but it wasn't rote. They were explaining the underlying theory and processes and intuition behind it. ”
Education is not an end to itself. You need to know algebra but also how to navigate the world. ”
Education has helped me a lot. ”
We want to make access to a world-class education like clean drinking water or electricity. ”
I do believe that education should become as close to free as possible. ”
Education has to be more than tests and formulas. ”
India, with one of the largest education systems in the world, has always been a priority for Khan Academy. ”
A one-size-fits-all lecture is not the way to go about education. ”