Well, before I was in the hedge fund world, I kept being drawn to either tutoring directly, like me being people’s tutors, or how can we leverage technology to help people learn ideally at their own time and pace? And so that was always in the back of my mind. Wasn’t it crazy to think that Khan Academy could actually work? It also sounds like the kind of scheme that would fail 999 times out of 1,000. That sounds like a well-intentioned plan.
You had a good job you liked at a hedge fund that paid you a ton of money, and then you had some crazy vision that you would post short lectures on the internet and you’d give them away for free hoping to provide kids another way to learn. LEVITT: I’m a huge admirer but I have to say, I think you set a very dangerous example for other people. Sal KHAN: Likewise, I’ve always been a big fan, Steve Steven LEVITT: Sal Khan, what a treat it is to get to talk to you today I also have radical ideas for the future of education, and my pipe dream is that our visions might align and there could be an opportunity for us to work together. I think he has an even bolder plan in mind, a complete rethinking of how education works.
Second, although he doesn’t advertise it, I have the suspicion that Sal Khan’s ambitions go far beyond Khan Academy. First, I want to get inside the head of Sal Khan to understand what the special sauce is that has made him so incredibly successful in this area so I can do better myself. Sal Khan makes it look easy, but in reality, it is incredibly hard. LEVITT: I spend much of my time these days working through my center at the University of Chicago to try to change the world for the better, and I can’t tell you how much we’ve struggled and how little impact we’ve had relative to what I would have hoped for.
Welcome to People I (Mostly) Admire with Steve Levitt. All of it available completely free to students and parents. Now there are over 70,000 practice problems, quizzes, and articles, even state-of-the-art S.A.T. More than 115 million registered users spread across 190 countries in 46 different languages. Steven LEVITT: When Sal Khan started posting a few free instructional videos on YouTube 15 years ago, I don’t think anyone could have imagined what Khan Academy would become.
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