Of Pseudo religious scholars and hypocrites, this was the title that I thought I will write about today.
I have seen the clips that are making rounds at the YouTube showing the anchors who are becoming the so called face of Islam in our society.
What I wanted was to write something about them and to expose them further. I almost embedded a video from YouTube in this blog so that I can make my point. But just about that I stopped and thought once again what I want to do with my time; the next thirty minutes or so which I will invest in writing this blog.
This changed my intentions and I am not in any mood to waste my time on such hypocrites any further. Rather I am driven to something else. A great Pakistani Student that was asked to deliver the commencement address at the initiation of 2012 academic year at the MIT.
I am talking about Sal Khan the founder of Khan Academy. The way Khan Academy introduces itself on its website I am copying that here:
"A free world-class education for anyone anywhere.
The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.
All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. The Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge. "
For those who would like to visit the site here's the link: Khan Academy
They say about themselves : " With over 3,300 videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace. "
They have delivered 172,434,855 lessons already , no mean feat.
I heard Salman Khan on the You tube delivering the address to MIT students and faculty. He said that when he started this it was only for his cousins that he created a few lessons. But that gave him an idea and he expanded it to cover more lessons on many more topics and subjects. While he was doing this he understood that he has already hit a gold mine. If he wanted he could have made millions or more with this idea. But he chose otherwise. He chose to share the knowledge with others and specially with those who cannot afford. He made all the content available to the whole world.
With more than 170 million lessons delivered worldwide I think he has already made a great difference. If you require you can learn on many topics including Maths, Stats, Biology etc and also when you are struggling with your young ones to make them understand basic topics , you can find immense help at the Khan Academy. Just click on the lesson and you will see a short crisp lesson delivered on your computer screen.
We can learn from him and contribute in our own humble ways to the good of the society and the world.
Please see the link of the address that Khan delivered at MIT University:
I have seen the clips that are making rounds at the YouTube showing the anchors who are becoming the so called face of Islam in our society.
What I wanted was to write something about them and to expose them further. I almost embedded a video from YouTube in this blog so that I can make my point. But just about that I stopped and thought once again what I want to do with my time; the next thirty minutes or so which I will invest in writing this blog.
This changed my intentions and I am not in any mood to waste my time on such hypocrites any further. Rather I am driven to something else. A great Pakistani Student that was asked to deliver the commencement address at the initiation of 2012 academic year at the MIT.
I am talking about Sal Khan the founder of Khan Academy. The way Khan Academy introduces itself on its website I am copying that here:
"A free world-class education for anyone anywhere.
The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.
All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. The Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge. "
For those who would like to visit the site here's the link: Khan Academy
They say about themselves : " With over 3,300 videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace. "
They have delivered 172,434,855 lessons already , no mean feat.
I heard Salman Khan on the You tube delivering the address to MIT students and faculty. He said that when he started this it was only for his cousins that he created a few lessons. But that gave him an idea and he expanded it to cover more lessons on many more topics and subjects. While he was doing this he understood that he has already hit a gold mine. If he wanted he could have made millions or more with this idea. But he chose otherwise. He chose to share the knowledge with others and specially with those who cannot afford. He made all the content available to the whole world.
With more than 170 million lessons delivered worldwide I think he has already made a great difference. If you require you can learn on many topics including Maths, Stats, Biology etc and also when you are struggling with your young ones to make them understand basic topics , you can find immense help at the Khan Academy. Just click on the lesson and you will see a short crisp lesson delivered on your computer screen.
We can learn from him and contribute in our own humble ways to the good of the society and the world.
Please see the link of the address that Khan delivered at MIT University:
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