Geek of the Week: Sal Khan

Here we honor Muggle geeks who embody Ravenclaw spirit...when they succeed, they soar, and when they fail, they fail spectacularly!

Sal Khan (b. 1976)
"If we could get those creative people…to say ‘Hey I’m using these math tools to further my creativity’ this would help.  I think people are starting to appreciate that, and that is what computer science has really done."

It all began with a quick YouTube tutorial, teaching weights and measures conversion to a very specific seventh grader.

If Salman Khan (the Louisianian computer scientist, not the Bollywood superstar) had gone to school at Hogwarts with us, he would definitely have sorted into Ravenclaw... but instead he went to MIT and Harvard, schools with equally restrictive admission policies.

What he has done with that education is remarkable: his Khan Academy offers almost 4000 free, high-quality, easy-to-follow educational videos, complete with quizzes, on a variety of subjects.

Find out more about Sal Khan on Wikipedia.
Educate yourself at the Khan Academy.

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