薩爾曼·可汗，身為孟加拉和印度移民後裔，他從小聰明好學，展現瞭齣色的數學天賦。他在麻省理工學院獲得數學學士、電氣工程與計算機科學學士及碩士學位後，在哈佛商學院獲得瞭MBA。

在一次對錶妹的遠程輔導後，他將授課實況製成視頻傳上網站分享，自此好評如潮。他於2009年辭去金融分析師的工作，專心建設這一旨在為全球學生提供免費在綫教育的“可汗學院”。

2014年1月，YouTube上的“可汗學院頻道”共吸引瞭163.3萬訂閱者，觀看次數超過3.55億次。薩爾曼·可汗已成為教育領域的超級巨星，並吸引瞭可觀的資助，比爾·蓋茨基金會先後提供瞭550萬美元支持其事業。

可汗於2010年入選《財富》“全球40大青年纔俊榜”，2012年入選《時代周刊》“100位最具影響力人物”。

A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Today millions of students, parents, and teachers use the Khan Academy's free videos and software, which have expanded to encompass nearly every conceivable subject; and Academy techniques are being employed with exciting results in a growing number of classrooms around the globe.

Like many innovators, Khan rethinks existing assumptions and imagines what education could be if freed from them. And his core idea-liberating teachers from lecturing and state-mandated calendars and opening up class time for truly human interaction-has become his life's passion. Schools seek his advice about connecting to students in a digital age, and people of all ages and backgrounds flock to the site to utilize this fresh approach to learning.

In THE ONE WORLD SCHOOLHOUSE, Khan presents his radical vision for the future of education, as well as his own remarkable story, for the first time. In these pages, you will discover, among other things:

How both students and teachers are being bound by a broken top-down model invented in Prussia two centuries ago Why technology will make classrooms more human and teachers more important How and why we can afford to pay educators the same as other professionals How we can bring creativity and true human interactivity back to learning Why we should be very optimistic about the future of learning. Parents and politicians routinely bemoan the state of our education system. Statistics suggest we've fallen behind the rest of the world in literacy, math, and sciences. With a shrewd reading of history, Khan explains how this crisis presented itself, and why a return to "mastery learning," abandoned in the twentieth century and ingeniously revived by tools like the Khan Academy, could offer the best opportunity to level the playing field, and to give all of our children a world-class education now.

More than just a solution, THE ONE WORLD SCHOOLHOUSE serves as a call for free, universal, global education, and an explanation of how Khan's simple yet revolutionary thinking can help achieve this inspiring goal.