>and there wouldn't be kids who didn't know how to tie their shoes;
I've met at least a few people who, being charitable, I would be extremely hard pressed to see passing a calculus exam. I'd agree that for some it's down to motivation but the motivation may come 20+years later or not at all.
Certainly though I'm extremely wary of declaring that all people can attain the same intellectual level which appears to be what you claim.
I'm not going to say it's impossible but I think you must have missed a step where you do some sort of brain augmentation or injection of nanobots to build knowledge pathways without any need to apply a learning process ...
My little rant is definitely meant to be more persuasive than quantifiably accurate; take it with a grain of salt.
Regardless, I don't think the existence of can't-be-motivated learners compromises the ideals of a Khan-like system. Sure there are kids that aren't going to get it no matter what, but their productivity in any system is going to be nill, Khan, tradtional, or otherwise.
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>and there wouldn't be kids who didn't know how to tie their shoes;
I've met at least a few people who, being charitable, I would be extremely hard pressed to see passing a calculus exam. I'd agree that for some it's down to motivation but the motivation may come 20+years later or not at all.
Certainly though I'm extremely wary of declaring that all people can attain the same intellectual level which appears to be what you claim.
I'm not going to say it's impossible but I think you must have missed a step where you do some sort of brain augmentation or injection of nanobots to build knowledge pathways without any need to apply a learning process ...
My little rant is definitely meant to be more persuasive than quantifiably accurate; take it with a grain of salt.
Regardless, I don't think the existence of can't-be-motivated learners compromises the ideals of a Khan-like system. Sure there are kids that aren't going to get it no matter what, but their productivity in any system is going to be nill, Khan, tradtional, or otherwise.