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Written in an accessible style, it empowers professionals to understand and advocate for a more equitable, curiosity-driven learning model that meets the demands of today and tomorrow. ## Description The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined [Khan, Salman] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined Review: Thank you Sal! - Reading this book without considering the author's continuous contributions to a world that so desperately needs what Salman Khan is offering is difficult, borderline impossible, but if you are still unfamiliar with the Khan Academy, this book will provide you with an excellent introduction to what it is that Khan and his team are up to. To those already familiar with Khan's teaching style, the structure of his prose will not surprise you. He has the rare gift of taking intricate concepts and breaking them apart to their core foundations; then explaining these concepts while guiding you to form your own intuition about what it all means in the big picture. Not only do you gain intuition and understanding by reading and listening to his words, you develop an appreciation and positivity about why you are "choosing" to learn in the first place. This choice plays an important role in an individual's education, as Sal points out multiple times in this book. When we as humans are allowed to explore the world at the pace of our own curiosity, we develop a love of knowledge that is typically pounded out of us under our current prussian model of education. From my own experience, I've found this to be a truth that cuts to the core of my love/hate relationship with our current educational system, the k-12 years as well as post-secondary education. Mark Twain sums this up better than I can: "College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either". To be fair, as Sal even points out, he is not the first to say many of the things in this book, but he seems to be one of the few taking a stance against the dogmas of our current system. He's not just taking a stance against our present system based on opinion alone; IT IS WHAT A LARGE MAJORITY OF THE CURRENT SCIENTIFIC DATA SUGGESTS, yet many of our school systems are afraid to rock the boat and upset the traditional model. There are plenty of justifiable fears that come along with upsetting the system, especially when it comes to new technologies in the classroom, but what Khan is suggesting is not total upheaval but a more proactive approach to recognizing and not ignoring the tremendous shortcomings of our current model. We as a society need to recognize that times are changing and we need a more flexible model that will accommodate us better in the future as well as the present. Another topic that Sal critically illustrates is how our current model, in particular the academic transcript, is (whether consciously or unconsciously) classist, plain and simple. Our academic transcripts are judged based partly on this false notion of how difficult it was to get into our school of "choice". These transcripts DO NOT distinguish between the bright middle-class kid who had to work 5 days a week while in school versus the upper-class kid, born into a family of doctors and/or lawyers who received tutoring 5 days a week. The game has always been rigged in this regard. The well connected families have access to people that can make or break a kids future, while most of us have no idea who these people are. The most disgusting truth, I think is how some well-off families have a history of hiring well-paid consultants to teach how to write letters that make the applicant "sound [more] sincere". Now addressing the very few criticisms that others have made of "The One World School House". First off, if you read this book with an active mind, you are probably going to have a few disagreements, despite how damn respectful and nice Sal's delivery is, which is probably an extension of how genuine his character seems to be. It has been stated by another reviewer, as well as some stubborn teachers I've talked to that "Sal thinks he has all the answers". People that have said this obviously did not read the book, or failed to retain the information in it. Countless times, he points out that he's not suggesting that the Khan Academy will fix all the world's problems. He's suggesting that it be used as a test to determine how to make our schools more efficient, because clearly, they are not operating as well as they should. It has also been stated that his book is too simplistic a response to our current predicament, though, I in fact think this is a compliment because in this book, you will find excellently detailed maps of the pros and cons of our current model. Because of Khan's education for all approach, the reader is allowed to understand complex concepts that would not be so accessible without Sal's interpretation. The fact that this book is "easy" to read is a testament to Sal's capability of explaining things in a way that nearly anyone can understand. There are no arrogant assumptions in his teaching/writing style, which is something that I see all the time in current educational text books (Clearly, from step 1 we see that.........It's obvious that this follows from step 2.........Step 3 makes sense because of how simple and pointless it is to point out how steps 1 and 2 work......Undoubtedly it follows that........[these types of comments in text books make people feel stupid when they don't understand the steps] ). In conclusion, I'll leave you with Khan's own words: "In the real world....... with its blatant inequities and tragic shortfalls in both money and ideas, new approaches are needed to prop up and refresh a tired system that works for some but fails for many. The cost of wasting millions of minds is simply unacceptable. (pg 228) " p.s. If Bill Hicks were alive today, he would probably be overwhelmed that someone like Sal is actually putting into practice what Bill and others have so passionately pushed for. "Here's what you can do to change the world, right now......Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defense each year, and instead spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for itself many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, for ever, in peace." - Bill Hicks Review: Breaking learning down to see possibilities beyond the problems - I've spent my 40+ year career first as a classroom teacher, then a student teacher supervisor, a corporate trainer and instructional designer, and a training manager. Over that period there have been many theories about teaching, training and learning technologies, and today there is much angst among teachers and technologists about the best way to learn. Add to all that the debates we're having on a national and political level about what to do about our schools as it relates to our current and future standing in the world, and education is not in a golden age right now. Amidst all of this consternation, Salman Khan has given us 1) a wonderful and optimistic learning example and design with his Khan Academy and 2) now a book that explains what and how he did it. Where other such ideas and solutions have done little but create more debate and finger-pointing, Khan did this first by starting with one person, then a few more, then all who would go to his YouTube channel, and eventually working with people and companies who wanted to help him succeed. What's most impressive and brilliant about his work is that he bases his designs on what seemed to work best for him as a learner, as an engineer and as a person who was not intimidated to work with VIPs. He was able to come up with pedagogical insights--not because of what he learned in teacher training ... he doesn't have any--but from what worked for him as a high school and college student that he then applied when having to address progressively larger audiences. What's completely effective, creative and totally original about "The One World Schoolhouse" is how Khan weaves together and sequences his ideas, metaphors and anecdotes in a way that's easy to understand, that still makes you think about what he is observing, and that is totally self-effacing and unpretentious... 1. He starts by laying out the principles he follows to engage students and describes in common sense ways why this works for students and learners. This could probably be considered his educational theory but in the way Khan describes how his cousins and then learners in general responded to his design this feels nothing like science. 2. He then describes how we have gotten to our current state in education and how his solutions address the issues he points out. This is so comprehensive that it addresses issues across the whole learning landscape and not an isolated part of the context of schools and learning. 3. In the third part--my favorite--he describes how he and his wife decided to go all in on the Khan Academy and how some very important people--inspired by their own personal use of his videos for themselves and their kids--offered him capital to build out his solutions. It seems rare when people make decisions for the good of their audiences and are then rewarded for it. You can see that what has made Khan and his Academy so successful has been his personal ability to break difficult concepts into building blocks and knowledge maps that allow each learner to eventually learn successfully. The way he constructs this third part of his story is genius and just plain inspirational. 4. Having established his credibility, Khan then completes the book with nine components that make up his vision of education for the future. This part could be seen by many as idealistic, but for the fact that he has been so successful so far by following those same instincts. This is an incredibly important book in the face of all that's happening in our country politically and economically, where it appears hopeless for disadvantaged people and their children to succeed in schools and then professionally. It cuts through all the fears and rationalizations educational and training people are expressing now about their future roles in teaching others. Hopefully, Khan's example will inspire others to think about learning in very different ways. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #586,133 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #135 in Experimental Education Methods (Books) #185 in Educator Biographies #525 in Education Assessment (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 897 Reviews | ## Images ![The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81W-2dhvFVL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thank you Sal! *by M***D on November 21, 2012* Reading this book without considering the author's continuous contributions to a world that so desperately needs what Salman Khan is offering is difficult, borderline impossible, but if you are still unfamiliar with the Khan Academy, this book will provide you with an excellent introduction to what it is that Khan and his team are up to. To those already familiar with Khan's teaching style, the structure of his prose will not surprise you. He has the rare gift of taking intricate concepts and breaking them apart to their core foundations; then explaining these concepts while guiding you to form your own intuition about what it all means in the big picture. Not only do you gain intuition and understanding by reading and listening to his words, you develop an appreciation and positivity about why you are "choosing" to learn in the first place. This choice plays an important role in an individual's education, as Sal points out multiple times in this book. When we as humans are allowed to explore the world at the pace of our own curiosity, we develop a love of knowledge that is typically pounded out of us under our current prussian model of education. From my own experience, I've found this to be a truth that cuts to the core of my love/hate relationship with our current educational system, the k-12 years as well as post-secondary education. Mark Twain sums this up better than I can: "College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either". To be fair, as Sal even points out, he is not the first to say many of the things in this book, but he seems to be one of the few taking a stance against the dogmas of our current system. He's not just taking a stance against our present system based on opinion alone; IT IS WHAT A LARGE MAJORITY OF THE CURRENT SCIENTIFIC DATA SUGGESTS, yet many of our school systems are afraid to rock the boat and upset the traditional model. There are plenty of justifiable fears that come along with upsetting the system, especially when it comes to new technologies in the classroom, but what Khan is suggesting is not total upheaval but a more proactive approach to recognizing and not ignoring the tremendous shortcomings of our current model. We as a society need to recognize that times are changing and we need a more flexible model that will accommodate us better in the future as well as the present. Another topic that Sal critically illustrates is how our current model, in particular the academic transcript, is (whether consciously or unconsciously) classist, plain and simple. Our academic transcripts are judged based partly on this false notion of how difficult it was to get into our school of "choice". These transcripts DO NOT distinguish between the bright middle-class kid who had to work 5 days a week while in school versus the upper-class kid, born into a family of doctors and/or lawyers who received tutoring 5 days a week. The game has always been rigged in this regard. The well connected families have access to people that can make or break a kids future, while most of us have no idea who these people are. The most disgusting truth, I think is how some well-off families have a history of hiring well-paid consultants to teach how to write letters that make the applicant "sound [more] sincere". Now addressing the very few criticisms that others have made of "The One World School House". First off, if you read this book with an active mind, you are probably going to have a few disagreements, despite how damn respectful and nice Sal's delivery is, which is probably an extension of how genuine his character seems to be. It has been stated by another reviewer, as well as some stubborn teachers I've talked to that "Sal thinks he has all the answers". People that have said this obviously did not read the book, or failed to retain the information in it. Countless times, he points out that he's not suggesting that the Khan Academy will fix all the world's problems. He's suggesting that it be used as a test to determine how to make our schools more efficient, because clearly, they are not operating as well as they should. It has also been stated that his book is too simplistic a response to our current predicament, though, I in fact think this is a compliment because in this book, you will find excellently detailed maps of the pros and cons of our current model. Because of Khan's education for all approach, the reader is allowed to understand complex concepts that would not be so accessible without Sal's interpretation. The fact that this book is "easy" to read is a testament to Sal's capability of explaining things in a way that nearly anyone can understand. There are no arrogant assumptions in his teaching/writing style, which is something that I see all the time in current educational text books (Clearly, from step 1 we see that.........It's obvious that this follows from step 2.........Step 3 makes sense because of how simple and pointless it is to point out how steps 1 and 2 work......Undoubtedly it follows that........[these types of comments in text books make people feel stupid when they don't understand the steps] ). In conclusion, I'll leave you with Khan's own words: "In the real world....... with its blatant inequities and tragic shortfalls in both money and ideas, new approaches are needed to prop up and refresh a tired system that works for some but fails for many. The cost of wasting millions of minds is simply unacceptable. (pg 228) " p.s. If Bill Hicks were alive today, he would probably be overwhelmed that someone like Sal is actually putting into practice what Bill and others have so passionately pushed for. "Here's what you can do to change the world, right now......Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defense each year, and instead spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for itself many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, for ever, in peace." - Bill Hicks ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Breaking learning down to see possibilities beyond the problems *by T***S on October 8, 2012* I've spent my 40+ year career first as a classroom teacher, then a student teacher supervisor, a corporate trainer and instructional designer, and a training manager. Over that period there have been many theories about teaching, training and learning technologies, and today there is much angst among teachers and technologists about the best way to learn. Add to all that the debates we're having on a national and political level about what to do about our schools as it relates to our current and future standing in the world, and education is not in a golden age right now. Amidst all of this consternation, Salman Khan has given us 1) a wonderful and optimistic learning example and design with his Khan Academy and 2) now a book that explains what and how he did it. Where other such ideas and solutions have done little but create more debate and finger-pointing, Khan did this first by starting with one person, then a few more, then all who would go to his YouTube channel, and eventually working with people and companies who wanted to help him succeed. What's most impressive and brilliant about his work is that he bases his designs on what seemed to work best for him as a learner, as an engineer and as a person who was not intimidated to work with VIPs. He was able to come up with pedagogical insights--not because of what he learned in teacher training ... he doesn't have any--but from what worked for him as a high school and college student that he then applied when having to address progressively larger audiences. What's completely effective, creative and totally original about "The One World Schoolhouse" is how Khan weaves together and sequences his ideas, metaphors and anecdotes in a way that's easy to understand, that still makes you think about what he is observing, and that is totally self-effacing and unpretentious... 1. He starts by laying out the principles he follows to engage students and describes in common sense ways why this works for students and learners. This could probably be considered his educational theory but in the way Khan describes how his cousins and then learners in general responded to his design this feels nothing like science. 2. He then describes how we have gotten to our current state in education and how his solutions address the issues he points out. This is so comprehensive that it addresses issues across the whole learning landscape and not an isolated part of the context of schools and learning. 3. In the third part--my favorite--he describes how he and his wife decided to go all in on the Khan Academy and how some very important people--inspired by their own personal use of his videos for themselves and their kids--offered him capital to build out his solutions. It seems rare when people make decisions for the good of their audiences and are then rewarded for it. You can see that what has made Khan and his Academy so successful has been his personal ability to break difficult concepts into building blocks and knowledge maps that allow each learner to eventually learn successfully. The way he constructs this third part of his story is genius and just plain inspirational. 4. Having established his credibility, Khan then completes the book with nine components that make up his vision of education for the future. This part could be seen by many as idealistic, but for the fact that he has been so successful so far by following those same instincts. This is an incredibly important book in the face of all that's happening in our country politically and economically, where it appears hopeless for disadvantaged people and their children to succeed in schools and then professionally. It cuts through all the fears and rationalizations educational and training people are expressing now about their future roles in teaching others. Hopefully, Khan's example will inspire others to think about learning in very different ways. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Just Enough Utopia; Just Enough Reality! *by K***T on November 30, 2013* Salman Khan has contributed heavily to the changing educational landscape with his online Khan Academy. In this book, he writes i detail not only about that - where the ideas came from, what kind of software he used to create it - but how he envisions it and similar services as part of a larger educational picture. Much of the first half of the book is devoted to discussing what Khan thinks is wrong with the current model of schooling, what he calls "the Prussian model" as a reference to its origins in militaristic Prussia. This, contrasted with the pedagogical ideas he thinks work with the way we learn and how society is (or should be) structured. The usual suspects are on the list of things Khan doesn't like about our "Prussian" education model: passive learning through lecture, standardized curricula and assessments on the same timetable for everyone, an excess of homework, and students having no real control over what they learn and when. How does Khan want education to be? In the second half of the book, he discusses his experience creating the Khan academy (often inadvertently stumbling onto pedagogical practices that have been independently validated) and his larger vision for a "One World Schoolhouse." In this Schoolhouse, Khan envisions mastery learning where, instead of passing onto the next level when you score more than 7x% on the exam (taken at the same time as everyone else, to ensure grade level uniformity), students move on when they exhibit a high level of mastery (think closer to 100%), and this can be done at ANY time. If students take the test and only get an 80%, they learn more and retake on their schedule. Khan also sees students much more in charge of what they learn and when, especially given that we have the technology - video and otherwise - to make that happen. Lastly, it is important to realize that Khan is not solely advocating for students watching videos and taking assessments a la Khan academy; he also envisions that there will be tons of activity - once students learn certain basics via direct (often video) instruction, they will apply this knowledge via projects, games, discussions, etc. But the most important part about all of this is that it will not be homogeneous by grade (but skill level) and teachers will function less as "teachers," and more as coaches. Maybe without knowing it, Khan is essentially a progressive educator a la Dewey or (more likely) Kirkpatrick. I'd also suggest that Khan's vision is much the same as psychologist William Glasser's vision articulated in such books as The Quality School. THe difference is that Khan really has done much of what he is talking about doing - often, as said earlier, stumbling upon "good pedagogical practice" without knowing it had been validated by independent research. There are two things I must criticize about this book. First, Khan does not deal with potential criticisms AT ALL. And there are potential criticisms, sometimes obvious ones (even ones I don't agree with but I know others might). First, what about when kids are just too young to have any real sense of what whey should be learning? Does this model work all the way down to the level of, say, first grade and if so, are there any modifications needed? (My sense is that there will be modifications needed in the way of how much freedom students have to choose what they want to learn; while they can and should be as free as possible, I wonder if some structure will need to be in place.) Second, Khan's model may evoke concern that students will not be learning the same things in a way that we all come out with a "common core" of knowledge (this is more a concern for some than others, but it deserves addressing.) Third, while homogeneous age groupings clearly have disadvantages, are there as many disadvantages to heterogeneous age groupings, like lack of continuity with peers? At times, it feels like Khan is so concerned to articulate his vision that he may be accused of putting an excessively rosy spin on it and glossing over potential (obvious) criticisms. Other than that, this book was an awesome read. Like many books discussing "disruptive innovations" in enthusiastic ways, this book had me reading straight through into the wee hours of the morning. Maybe I am susceptible to the intrepid "in the future, it could be different, and here is how" thinking; if you are, you will love this book just as much as I did. Khan clearly cares about students and his articulation of the One World Schoolhouse ideas has just enough utopia to make it interesting and beautiful, but just enough reality to give you the sense that we can achieve it. ## Frequently Bought Together - One World Schoolhouse - Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down (2nd Edition) - Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover Education --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/10162650-the-one-world-schoolhouse-education-reimagined](https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/10162650-the-one-world-schoolhouse-education-reimagined) --- *Product available on Desertcart Kuwait* *Store origin: KW* *Last updated: 2026-05-16*