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The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined is a book delving into the author’s life story and his radical vision and ideas for a future of better education. Summary Of The Book This insightful text discusses how both teachers and students have been bound by an age-old academic model established in Prussia almost two centuries ago. It also narrates how technology will humanize classrooms and raise the status of teachers, and also discusses how we are able to pay academicians and educators the same as other professionals. The author advises on how to reintroduce creativity and human interactions to the process of learning, and outlines the reasons behind education being better in the future. The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined is segregated into four parts, namely, Learning to Teach, The Broken Model, Into the Real World and The One World Schoolhouse. Within these divisions, several chapters discuss topics like how education happens, the economics of schooling, homework, the future of transcripts and credentials, among many others. An entire chapter is dedicated to the Khan Academy software as well. The author also stresses on the importance his core belief, which is the idea of removing educators from strict timetables and classrooms run by the State, and using them to conduct interactive lessons with students. Khan Academy, founded by the author, is a free online education platform and a non-profit organization with an aim to change global education by providing accessible and world-class education for almost anyone situated anywhere. According to statistics, it is believed that we are lagging behind the rest of the world in math, literacy and science. The author identifies the reason behind this, and explains why the revival of mastery learning, a concept which was given up in the twentieth century could be the key to giving all Indians a world-class education. About Salman Khan Salman Khan, born in 1976, is an American of Bangladeshi descent, and is a popular author, entrepreneur, ex-hedge fund analyst, and educator. He is the founder of the Khan Academy, and was born in New Orleans, where he grew up. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and obtained an MBA degree from Harvard Business School. His organization won the 2009 Microsoft Tech Award for education, and he personally won the 2013 Posey Leadership Award by Austin College at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. Khan currently resides in Mountain View, California, with his wife, Umaima Marvi, and their two children.