Sal Khan: Emotional Stress, Standardized Tests, & A New Approach to Education

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Mayim Bialik

Comedy, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Salman “Sal” Khan, acclaimed educator and philanthropist describes his journey through the educational system and his plans to change it for the better. Originally an analyst at a hedge fund, Sal decided to leave his cushioned career in order to focus on his true passion, education. This is when https://www.khanacademy.org/ was born. Mayim and Sal discuss his vision of a world where everyone has the opportunity to receive individualized, compassionate education without the fear, stress, and anxiety of standardized tests and ranking systems. Mayim shares about her own experiences in the education system as a student and as a teacher to her children. Sal and Mayim discuss the “natural curiosity” of all human beings and comment on how the traditional education system has failed many students in many ways.

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0:00.0	If you really start peeling the onion, it's really what's going on in people's heads.
0:05.9	The best way that I can think of and I still can think of that affects what goes on in
0:09.7	people's heads is education.
0:11.1	And education isn't just about learning how to factor a quadratic or learning.
0:14.7	Negative B plus or minus the square root of B squared minus 4 is the all over 2A.
0:18.8	Exactly.
0:19.8	I don't know what quadratic's are.
0:21.8	I got an MFA.
0:22.8	Hi, I'm Iambiala and welcome to my breakdowns.
0:26.5	This is the place where I break things down so you don't have to.
0:30.7	It's my Aambiala.
0:31.7	It's a breakdown.
0:32.7	She's going to break it down for you because you know she knows a thing or two.
0:38.0	And now she's going to break down.
0:40.3	It's a breakdown.
0:41.3	She's going to break it down.
0:43.7	We have a very exciting guest today.
0:46.2	Today we're going to be breaking down, I guess education.
0:49.4	We're talking to Sal Khan, the man who founded the Khan Academy.
0:55.2	I'll tell you about that in a minute.
0:56.4	But first, my favorite solution to the quadratic equation, Jonathan Cohen.
1:01.3	Hello, Maim.
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