The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

Simply stated The One World School House is AWESOME. Khan details how the Khan Academy started, the history of the lecture style educational style, the shortcomings of current educational system, and the vision on how technology can be used to revolutionize education for everyone in the modern time! LISTEN to this book!

Yes. People need to be empowered by a realistic hope that we can do much better in our schools, that we have the tools to do it now, and that it is actually being done. Our education system is at once our biggest problem and our biggest opportunity as a nation. Khan shows that the solutions most often proposed simply won't make a difference. The school model must be changed. And he lays out some very thoughtful, concrete ways to change the model.

Sal Khan is one of the big thinkers of the century. But he just stumbled across his big ideas while helping out a family member. His Khan Academy is often thought to be anti-teacher and anti-school, but it is not. It would be interesting to learn more about the application of his ideas to younger children and to topics other than science and math. Read this book if you care about the future of public education.

This book is awesome. Five stars just isn't enough. If you moved around a bunch as a child with a military family or any other reason and have all kinds of wholes in your education you can relate to students who fall behind and never quite get the skills they need. Salman Khan's ideas when implemented, can help classroom teachers with all of their children. Technology in the classroom is not for doing away with teachers, but for helping them and empowering them to have an even greater positive influence on our children. I look forward to using Khan Academy Videos to fix my math skills.

I will most likely listen to this book many times. I have ADD and information doesn't always stick the first time. That is why I love Audible books. I can listen over and over again.

The best.

The people of the world - who else could beat that?

Audio, particularly like this, with the author, is personal because it is a special person's conversation of which you are an integral part. Audio allows a much broader mental perspective than text alone. Your mind may soar and roam with the ideas because it is not having to move and manage your eyes continually.

Please listen to Sal and do your part to make his dream a reality, if you care about the future of our world.

Right up there at the top of the most thought-provoking books I have read in my life.

I was admittedly already a fan of Sal Khan's, but this made me even more so. I thought the content of the book was great -- gave some education history but also pointed the way to the future. And I loved that Sal himself read it -- made it feel much more personal. Highly recommended.

I like what has been done with the Khan academy, but such an accomplishment does not make a person an instant expert on education. Khan should have focused on his success story and how his online tutorials work and contribute to math education. His opinions on education in general are not well informed. His arguments are weak and often contradictory in that he does not hold himself to the same standards that he holds other researchers in education to (apparently his quasi-science is better than others). His opinions are nothing new and hardly revolutionary. He sets education up as a straw man providing stereotypic and simplistic views of education, so he can then argue against it. I am sorry but I do not believe business people and entrepreneurs make the best teachers. And, BTW, English students are not a bunch of pre-med drop outs, and I know of very, very few teachers who make a $100,000 a year (it's ridiculous to even make such a statement). Education is a complex problem, and it needs complex thinking and problem solving which you will not find in this book. Overall, I found this book very disappointing.