This Salman Khan doesn’t like removing his shirt for no good
reason, has 3 degrees from MIT (BS in Mathematics, BS and MS in Electrical and
Computer Engineering) and one from Harvard( MBA) and has left his job at a
hedge fund to teach school kids.
Salman Khan is a Bangladeshi American born to a Bangladeshi
father and an Indian mother. He started of his teaching career when he started
helping out his cousins in their school curriculum. He started posting 10
minute video tutorials on YouTube so that his cousins could have a look. Over
the time, he started getting a good number of hits on his videos. So much so
that it caught Bill Gates' attention. Now he has a $2 million support from
Google to create more content and translation of content to other prominent
languages of the world.
He featured in TED in
2011 where he tells how a hedge fund analyst got into teaching kids.
I have been viewing some of his videos on finance and
economics and they have been really enlightening. It is kind of eureka feeling
when you come across something like this. It was as if you were looking for it all
along but didn’t know where you might stumble across this thing.
Check out his webpage for some insane number of videos: http://www.khanacademy.org/
