If you know mathematics well enough to teach it in a one-on-one setting, you have a real possibility to change the lives of a lot of young people.
There’s no question that Salman Khan has done a wonderful thing with his Khan Academy. His mathematics videos are very good. Well over a million students have taken advantage of these videos, and they are live all over the world. He has fundamentally changed the lives of more young people than any teacher in history. Yet he did this simply by posting YouTube videos on his site.
We know this much in education: “One size doesn’t fit all.” One teaching methodology doesn’t work for everybody. Anybody who thinks that there is a single theory of education that applies to as many as 80% of the population does not understand the findings of modern psychology. The learning process is astoundingly complex, and no one can get a handle on it.
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Khan Academy is just wonderful. Been using it for quite a while and telling others.
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Quizlet.com covers ALL subjects across most grade levels through and beyond HS. Also test prep. Was started by a student elsewhere. Using and recommending it since 2007. Useful for students, teachers, parents helping at home.