Khan’s lecture began with the story of how his educationcareer began. As one medical student remarked during the question and answerperiod, “it’s a little surreal hearing your voice in person rather than from mylaptop.” Many goto lectures to hear new voices, but it is not every day that you get to hearfamiliar ones. For his work in furthering education, Khan was awardedthe Padma Shri award in 2016 and the Heinz Award in 2010.Īs a college student myself, I used Khan Academy a lot inhigh school and go back to it frequently to jog my memory in certain subjects.Like many fellow students, this lecture struck me as something unique. The platform has been so successful that itis now officially affiliated with the SAT and is being translated into dozensof languages worldwide. Known for its creation of free educational material, itsstated mission is “providing a free, world-class education for anyone,anywhere.” In practice, this lofty ideatranslates to a website full of insightful videos - many of which narrated byKhan himself - explaining concepts as varied as American history to linearalgebra to even art interpretation. The non-profit Khan Academy is an educational organizationand popular website.
If that doesn’t ring a bell, perhaps you are familiar with the website ‘ Educator and Entrepreneur Salman Khan visited City Collegeon the first of April as part of the “Rudin Lecture Series.” His lecture,titled “Reimagining Education,” focused on the past and present of KhanAcademy, his chief educational accomplishment, elaborating his philosophy oneducation and what it needs to accomplish in the contemporary world. The name Salman Khan is probably at least somewhat recognizable to most of us.
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