[randyrand]

If you closely followed this advice, I don't think Kahn academy would have been invented. What teachers want and what students needs are not the same.

[GuiA]

Salman Khan started Khan Academy after extensive hours spent tutoring family members & friends, IIRC. That's not quite classroom experience, but it's also much more than some random fresh out of college grad starting an education startup just because YC said they were interested in them.

[germinalphrase]

Perhaps, but KA is a supplement - not a replacement for - more traditional in-person educational experiences.

[sannee]

KA lecture videos were much more in-depth and much more useful than any high school math lesson I ever received.

I mean, Khan is obviously a top teacher, if he wasn't, he'd get replaced by Johnie Academy or whatever pretty quickly. You can't really staff every high school with top teachers, especially if they earn below average wage (that's the case where I live).

It's also a feature of the whole digital format. The lecture can be bugfixed until there are no mistakes left. And have you ever tried telling your high school teacher to rewind 3 minutes and speak 2x times as quickly?

[randyrand]

Big whoop. KA is still education. This thread is about education startups, not necessarily in-person education startups.