He wrote a book called The One World Schoolhouse that spelled out his vision, one in which schools abandon outdated practices-like homework, daily schedules composed of distinct 50-minute periods, grades, and classes organized by age-and embrace radical new methods to prepare students for the post-industrial world. They were supplementing traditional education, when the entire system needed to be rethought. “A true pioneer.” “One of our heroes.”īut a few years ago, Khan began arguing that videos weren’t enough. “The world’s best-known teacher,” he has been called. Khan, an MIT grad and former hedge funder, has become a Silicon Valley celebrity, feted on 60 Minutes, at TED, and in the pages of WIRED. Plenty of big-brained tech types-including the likes of Bill Gates, Ann and John Doerr, and Walter Isaacson-have hailed Khan Academy as a breakthrough: world-class teaching unencumbered by space and time, an agile system that lets students learn at their own pace, the most compelling case yet for how technology might revolutionize education around the globe. Khan himself is the famed creator of Khan Academy, the online juggernaut that provides thousands of hours of free video tutorials and exercises to anyone with an Internet connection. Or at least not any more fidgety than your standard group of 9- to 12-year-olds sitting in a warm room analyzing the decline of the Weimar Republic. So the kids here don’t seem particularly fidgety. But the Lab School eschews most of the traditional trappings of US education, including summer break. At most schools, the students would be counting down the minutes until their summer vacation. It’s late June, nine months into the first year at Khan Lab School, Khan’s educational R&D lab in Mountain View. Salman Khan sits at the head of a conference table, surrounded by about a dozen children, talking about Hitler.
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