He voluntarily gave up the business investment of $654.38 billion and insisted on free education. Now, he has successfully appeared on the cover of Forbes magazine and become one of the top 500 influential celebrities in the world.
Khan's story:
Salman khan 1976 10 was born in New Orleans, USA, with Bangladeshi father and Indian mother. Khan's parents divorced when he was very young. /kloc-When he was 0/3 years old, his father died and his mother was his only relative. Although his family was poor, Khan was admitted to MIT by virtue of his cleverness and hard work.
1994- 1998 He cherished the opportunity to study at MIT and got a bachelor's degree in mathematics, a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering and computer science, and a master's degree in one breath.
2001-In 2003, he was admitted to Harvard Business School and obtained a master's degree in business administration.
After graduation, Khan entered a fund company in the United States and took a job unrelated to education.
Salman khan has a little niece named Nadia who wants Khan to help him with his math, but Khan and his niece are not in the same city. Khan began to teach her math through the Internet. Thanks to her lively and interesting speech, her math scores improved rapidly.
Some other friends want to ask him to help them with their math. Khan thought, it is better to make a video of my lecture for everyone to watch for free.
After work, he plunged into the small bedroom, filmed and made videos with simple equipment, and worked for an average of three hours every night.
Covering traditional education
In 2007, Khan website was established. Khan not only explained many subjects with videos, but also answered questions for children.
Khan's class is meticulous, no nonsense, lively and interesting. Khan, who is proficient in computers, has also written small programs similar to games. After class, there are small-scale upgrades and tricks, and points are exchanged. Each class is within 10 minutes. Children especially like to listen to his classes. The daily broadcast volume reached more than 2 million.
In the United States, there are more than 20,000 schools, and teachers don't attend classes themselves, because they find that children obviously prefer to listen to Khan's online lectures, and they simply play Khan's lectures directly in class.
Khan subverted the traditional way of education by his own efforts and a network cable. It has become a dawn of "future education" and brought revolutionary changes to education.
He has not been commercialized.
In 2009, the monthly visit of Khan Academy reached 5 million, while the monthly visit of MIT OCW website was only 6.5438+0.5 million.
The commercial venture capital organization smelled the business opportunity and wanted to invest $654.38 billion in his website for charging and commercial operation, but salman khan refused. He said: I would rather be middle-class than charge anything. Because once charged, many children in developing countries can't afford it?
Salman khan recalled, "This decision was also very difficult, because I lived almost entirely on my savings at that time. At that time, my son was going to be born, and I had to pay the house and spend money everywhere. I can't hold on any longer. I wonder what this project will look like in the future. When I was stressed, I also thought that I might as well go back to work. "
Just as Khan was "dying", he suddenly found that he had more than 10 thousand dollars in his bank account. After tracing, he realized that the money was donated by a student who was listening to his lecture. The student told him that the donor himself and his family and friends were listening to his lecture online.
20 10, 10, Khan Academy received an investment of $50,000 from the Gates Foundation/kloc-0, and an investment of $2 million from Google. Maintain him as a non-profit organization.
Khan has become the darling of American mathematics education, and is very popular in business and education. Because they know better than anyone that in traditional education, some teachers' teaching level is so poor that they can't arouse children's interest at all.
In 20 12, Salman successfully appeared on the cover of Forbes magazine. Forbes said, "This is a business opportunity of 1 trillion dollars. Today, the company with the highest market value is Apple, with only 700 billion dollars. But Salman refused, he just wanted it for free! "
For Khan, his life value = the value he created for the society/the income of his life. The greater the proportion, the greater the health value.
At the end of Khan's speech at the TED conference in California, all the audience stood up and applauded. Bill Gates also took the stage on the spot to discuss his teaching project with Khan.
Gates is one of Khan's biggest fans.
He used to spend a lot of time teaching three children the basic concepts of mathematics and science, but the children were always puzzled.
At the beginning of 20 10, someone recommended Khan's website to him. Unexpectedly, those knowledge points that he couldn't explain clearly, Khan let the children master through a short video of 12 minutes. Gates joked, "I'm really jealous of him."
When I finished telling the story to my child, the child couldn't be calm for a long time.
I asked: Can you tell me what is special about salman khan's speech?
The child said: First, Khan's class, each class is carefully designed and very attentive.
Second: Khan will explain the ins and outs of each formula to you clearly, without memorizing the formula, not to mention memorizing the idea of exam-oriented education. He cares about your way of thinking
Third: watching Khan's video won't distract you, because he will stop when you need to think and give you some time to think and ask if you have thought it over. He paused for a moment, then went on talking. He takes care of your rhythm, teaching instead of just talking to himself. This is very important, because once you don't keep up with this rhythm, then you are distracted.
Fourth: Khan fascinates me with mathematics, and I dream of becoming a mathematician.
I said: Do you want to donate money to Khan?
The child said: I want to donate money to him. I want to join Khan. I also want to be a teacher like Khan. I want to help others for free.