If You Want To Change the World, Educate the World | Sal Khan
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Sal Khan, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a nonprofit organization on a mission to provide free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
Since its inception in 2008, Khan Academy has helped teach hundreds of millions of students around the world through their adaptive online learning platform.
Sal has three degrees from MIT, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and most recently founded the Khan Lab School, a nonprofit brick-and-mortar private school in Mountain View, CA working to bring Sal’s vision of a mastery-based, blended learning system to life.
Sal has an extraordinary mind and his purpose is clear – I really enjoyed taking a deep dive into his journey, and I can’t wait for you to learn from his unique approach to life, learning, entrepreneurship, and commitment to making the world a better place.
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| 0:00.0 | You look at the world, you try to say, oh, wow, there's so many problems in the world. |
| 0:03.6 | How do you solve it? Do you think about climate? Do you think about inequality? |
| 0:07.7 | You think about whatever. You pick the issue, conflicts. |
| 0:11.9 | When you really keep peeling the onion, it's just what's going on in people's heads. |
| 0:16.0 | Everything else is almost just a side effect of what's going on in people's heads. |
| 0:20.0 | And okay, so then we got to change what goes on in people's heads or improve or remodel it. |
| 0:24.8 | Well, what does that? That's called education. |
| 0:30.6 | Okay, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. |
| 0:39.2 | I'm your host, Dr. Michael Jervé. |
| 0:42.0 | And I am excited to welcome Sal Khan as our guest on this week's episode. |
| 0:47.0 | So if you are in school or if you have a kid in school anytime in the last 14 years, |
| 0:52.4 | chances are that you recognize Sal's name is the founder and CEO of Khan Academy. |
| 0:57.6 | It's a nonprofit organization on a mission to provide free world class education for anyone |
| 1:03.6 | anywhere. And since their inception in 2008, they have helped hundreds of millions of students |
| 1:10.0 | around the world through their adaptive online learning platform. How good is that? Hundreds of |
| 1:15.9 | millions. Sal has three degrees from MIT, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and most recently |
| 1:22.2 | founded the Khan Lab School, a nonprofit brick and mortar private school in Mountain View, |
| 1:27.4 | California. And that is in an effort to bring his vision of mastery-based blended learning system |
| 1:33.6 | to life. Sal, super excited to sit with you. How are you? |
| 1:39.0 | I'm great. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:41.2 | Awesome. What a body of work that you bring into this conversation. |
| 1:46.0 | And I was hoping if we could get into the origin story just a bit. |
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