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Just search new here. Welcome to the HBR Ideacastatch. I'm Allison Beard.

I'm joined today by Salman Khan,

founder of the Khan Academy, a nonprofit dedicated

to providing free online education to students

around the world.

He's also the author of the One World School House, Education

Reimagined. Mr. Kahn, thanks for making the time to speak with me.

Thank you.

So your book focuses on K through 12 education, but how much of what you've learned about effective education applies to the business world?

Yeah, I mean a lot of the themes in the book and what we talk about at education at Khan Academy is it's not confined to what people

associate with education. In fact one of the things I point out in the book is how

arbitrary it is that you know we define K through 12 as literary K through 12 and

then we have four years of college maybe some grad school and then you're

kind of you know at least formally you supposedly stop learning even though we know

that's a complete myth especially if you're in a corporation in an industry where

you every every six months you have to learn new things.

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