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On post-COVID "disaster recovery": "I think we have to make the best of the constraints that we have now, but as we start to get out of this COVID period, it really does have to be viewed as a disaster recovery project because these gaps that these kids are accumulating and this lack of self-esteem and what's hitting them socially and emotionally, this will have long lasting repercussions for- for decades if we don't- if we don't try to fix it.".

So I'll be the first to say that pure online or distance learning is- cannot be a substitute for an amazing in-person teacher."

On remote learning replacing in-person lessons: "I'll be the first to say that if I had to pick for myself or my own children or anyone else's children between an in-person amazing teacher- if I had to pick between that and the fanciest distance learning online artificial intelligence, I would pick the in-person human amazing teacher every time.

In 2021, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Harvard.

He completed his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science at MIT and holds a master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. He featured in Fortune’s 40 Under 40 in 2010 and was invited by Bill Gates to speak at TED in 2011. Sal was named in the 2012 Time Magazine list of 100 most influential people in the world, and was on the front cover of Forbes. He has featured on many television and radio programs, including CNN, NBC Nightly News and National Public Radio in the US. His YouTube channel has over 7.5 million subscribers, and over 1.97 billion views. With the Khan Academy, Sal has produced 6,500+ popular videos, which predominantly focus on subjects around science and mathematics.

It received 2$ million from Google in 2010 to create more courses and translate its existing library into multiple languages. The Khan Academy has been widely recognised for its work – it was awarded the 2009 Microsoft Tech Award.

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit, and a free online education platform that aims to remove barriers to education. He is a keynote speaker on science, technology, entrepreneurship and education. Sal Khan is the Founder of online education platform, The Khan Academy, as well as the Khan Lab School in California.