Charlie Rose

anne4444  06/26/2011 06:39 PM Report

Thank you for the introduction

SharkswithfrikingLazers  05/07/2011 08:27 PM Report

A study in 2003 suggested that up to 16 million people worldwide — and 8 per cent of Asian men — were descended from Genghis Khan.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article669552.ece

So Khan Academy is a good name.

ReidTeacher  05/07/2011 03:43 AM Report

Minute 11 I thought they were gonna make out :)

mgoocher  05/06/2011 09:32 AM Report

Great interview! As a homeschool administrator, I think this is the future of education or at least learning augmentation. The best part is the end of the interview. Charlie Rose inspires so many! Love the interview with Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings, also, and am recommending to all my telecom coworkers.

JohnGelles  05/06/2011 08:53 AM Report

When government fails to achieve desired results because its regulations are worse than none at all, it is time to reduce detail and express rules in general terms. This will call for human judgement and authority to solve problems when they occur. If words are a problem use fewer of them. There is no need to present exhaustive detail ahead of performing brilliant moves. It is undeniable that our laws are too long and confusing and their objectives can only be met by people acting with great skill unencumbered by the desire to encode detail that confounds reason when most needed.

JohnGelles  05/06/2011 08:27 AM Report

Khan's ideas on the bailouts done by Bush and Obama are far from complete.

What was needed was:

1. a complete switch over from (a) taxing income to

(b) taxing consumption;

or, better still, replacing taxes with middle class savings (protected from inflation by indexing) as the way to prevent spiraling price inflation due to excessive ,middle class demand to consume ahead of supply reaching the shelves of the nation's retail stores.

2. Replacing (for approximately half of the economy) profit and loss price accounting with cost accounting to establish price as a cost-plus calculation instead of a market driven result. This would encourage a planned economy to end economic contraction when people preferred to save for future private investment or consumption while government supplied full-employment demand ALL THE TIME. People must work and eat ALL THE TIME -- not only when recessions end.

3. Government created fiat money (Lincolnian greembacks) which would be spent into circulation to grow production of all our necessities and keep all people always employed, is an absolute necessity when people's standards of living were threatened by inadequate monetized demand in the face of unmet needs by the middle class and aspirants to same.

4. Complete jettisoning of laws like the internal revenue code -- which are too long to be self-implementing at virtually no waste-time and waste-motion cost.

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Kahn academy needs many genius teachers not a faculty of one. It needs to breed teachers not just learners. It needs to be subsidized by governments not just by learners, parents and rich admirers.

The American system of competition must make effective use of all LOSERS -- when contracts are awarded to WINNERS.

We must implement the Second Bill of Rights proposed by FDR on January 11, 1944, -- with fiat money and no unpopular tax burden -- so that poverty is banished forever which reflects the paradox of thrift.

If logistical science demands price and/or wage controls, to guarantee rational operations and growth, these controls must be applied as liquidity is created to maintain full employment income for all who aspire to live the middle class or richer life. Temporary extra supply must not harm future production where price support is called for by common sense rules of the road that protect society from suicidal pricing. Computer assisted planning and pricing must be provided by systems agencies with intelligence capabiliies to prevent harm to the nation's industrial and military power to defend human rights when and as necessary. The NSA intelligence capabilities must be achieved by an Economic Security Agency whose mission is no less critical than NSA's.

The unmet mission needs that have allowed economic contraction in this new century must be so successfully addressed they never return again.

None of the above will be easy or can be invented without human effort. The days of belief in self-correcting mindless leadership must be abandoned as we have abandoned physical slavery in civilized society. We are todayh slaves to ignorance and ineffective accounting. It is time to steer the ship of state away from rocks, reefs, shallows and icebergs. God gave us each a brain and He demands we use it.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  05/06/2011 03:58 AM Report

By the way, only about 55% of those who try actually pass the AB Calculus Advanced Placement test http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/2010_CalculusAB_Score_Dist.pdf.

Perhaps Khan Academy can help? Then provide data on their results?

SharkswithfrikingLazers  05/06/2011 03:26 AM Report

(Charlie, if you want to be like Sal you will put the transcripts back up.)

Sal says that he fills in the gaps that students have but I would say the issue is more about motivation and that is what Amy Chua was all about (ie PARENTS!).

Bill Gates told Parade Magazine he uses Khan Academy when he homeschools his own children so that is quite the endorsement.

Look around--cell phones, video games--more interaction with opposable thumbs is required if you want to help more students than just the geeks.

afm528  05/05/2011 09:14 PM Report

Fantastic stuff. A brilliant mind. If you have kids in school, you should watch this conversation between two like-minded educators. And you should introduce your kids to Khan's videos, if you haven't already. I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation and enthusiastically support and applaud Mr. Khan's non-profit enthusiasm for knowledge.

Fran6359  05/05/2011 01:48 PM Report

His video's on the bailout shed some much needed light on how bad the American public got hosed by reinvesting in the exact same idiots who got us into the mess in the first place. Why couldn't our decision makers have figured out a way to invest the TARP funds and other bailout cash in other methods which would have provided (arguably) much more liquidity in markets? Instead we chose to take the easy route and redistribute the Chinese debt that we had to take on to the very people who had overleveraged our nation in the first place. What did they do with the money, because we clearly didn't avoid a freezing of the credit markets? Obviously our new investments didn't provide much liquidity, but rather propped up subpar financial institutions failing branches by letting them create others whose sole purpose was to promulgate the carry trade. Who could blame them though, as that was the best investment for them to make at the time to shore up their balance sheets.

Crony capitalism-1 Free Markets-0

Check out his videos! Every subject he touches on turns out to be much more interesting than I would ever have imagined before.

http://www.khanacademy.org/v/bailout-14--possible-solution?p=Finance