![]() And it’s a more serious problem than just people being bored or people being lost in one classroom. It’s that everyone learns at different paces and right now everyone is forced to go at the same pace. Khan: It’s a pretty straightforward problem. Ryssdal: What’s the education problem, though, that you think this can solve? But I decided to give it a shot and people all over the world started watching them and some of them would say, “Hey this helped me with an exam.” But some of them would say, “Hey this helped me not drop out of high school.” Or “This helped me get into the school that I wanted to get into.” So it became a pretty exciting thing to work on. I thought it was for dogs on skateboards, or whatever else. I didn’t think YouTube was for serious mathematics. Khan: I was a little dismissive of it at first. ![]() Ryssdal: How exactly did you wind up putting videos on YouTube? It’s become a library of thousands of instructional videos on topics from basic arithmetic to organic chemistry to the French Revolution, with financial backing from - among others - the Gates Foundation. ![]() It started as a tutoring service for his cousins on YouTube. He’s a former hedge fund manager turned educator as the founder and sole faculty member of the Khan Academy. ![]() But mostly in the classroom sense, helping kids learn. Occasionally in the administrative sense, as a way to make education more efficient. Kai Ryssdal: It’s pretty rare to have a conversation about education policy in which the word “technology” isn’t used at some point. ![]()
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