Sal Khan

thumb|Khan in 2011 Salman Khan (October 11, 1976 –) is an American educator who founded Khan Academy. Quotes Learn math the way you'd learn anything, like riding a bicycle. Stay on that bicycle. Fall off that bicycle. Do it as long as necessary, until you have mastery. The traditional model, it penalizes you for experimentation and failure, but it does not expect mastery. We encourage you to experiment. We encourage you to fail. But we do expect mastery. When you let students work at their own pace -- we see it over and over again -- you see students who took a little bit extra time on one concept or the other, but once they get through that concept, they just race ahead. And so the same kids that you thought were slow six weeks ago, you now would think are gifted. And we're seeing it over and over again. It makes you really wonder how much all of the labels maybe a lot of us have benefited from were really just due to a coincidence of time. Let’s use video to reinvent education (March 2011) External links Salman Amin Khan Category:Educators from the United States Category:Businesspeople from the United States Category:1976 births Category:Living people Category:People from New Orleans