What is our vision, especially over the next 10 years?

- Khan Academy, our mission as a not-for-profit is a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. And, you know, those words, I remember sitting in a closet and kind of filling out the forms with the IRS. They were chosen fairly intentionally. And, you know, the more that I think about it, those were the exact right words. World-class means that we don't want to just give something free that's "okay." We want to constantly be pushing the limits of what makes for great learning. We want to always be thinking systemically. And so, well, who's being lost here? How do we get people to engage at a deeper level? When we say education, it isn't a free, world-class "explanations" for anyone, anywhere. Or free, world-class "learning" for anyone, anywhere. It's free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. And in my mind, education is at least three things. It is, there's learning, which is a very big part of it. And that's where a lot of our resources at Khan Academy are focused. And, you know, world-class, the learning has to be world-class. And we always have to be pushing the envelope there. But education is also proving what you know to the world. There's a lot of folks who could go to Khan Academy, learn skills. But then how do they take that and use that to get into college or get a career or whatever, just plug into society in some way. And then the other piece is community and socialization. You know, a big part of schools are how do you learn to work with other people? How do you feel part of a community? And so at a very high level, we're serious about that. Khan Academy, not only should it explain and have really world-class learning for the core of what people would call an education, you know, from K through, I often say K through 14, I include those first two years of college. Because those are really some of the foundational classes that have fairly evergreen content. We should have a canonical curriculum for that. And when I say that, it should be much more than what people currently envision a curriculum to be. Much more than static text and a one-pace-fits-all lecture that you might get in a classroom. It should be on-demand resources, resources that give students real agency. Things that personalize, things that engage them. Tools that allow teachers to integrate it inside of their classroom. And make their classrooms more experiential. The other piece, though, is, well, how do we how do we make it easier for people to prove what they know? So over the course of the next 10, 15, 20 years, we do need to make it so that if a student learns algebra in Khan Academy, they can prove to their teacher or to their admissions officer or the community college or to an employer that yes, I know algebra, and it should be across all of the subjects. And as we go further on, as, you know, we're meeting the needs of where people are today, it's very important that we are relevant. You know, you can create a research project, but if no one's using it, then how much impact do you have? So it's very important, it's core to our ethos, that we make it relevant and usable by teachers and students today. But as we do that, we should always be pushing the envelope of what is the future of education. When you look at something like Khan Lab School or other similar schools that are being pioneered right now, how do we make that type of learning more available to more students? I imagine a world in 10 or 15 years where if you're a child in a slum in Bombay, Mumbai, you can have access to a cheap smartphone and start self-educating yourself, and maybe even plug into a community, it could be a virtual community, it could be even some type of physical community that emerges from people using these devices. And there's ways for you to prove what you know, so you can plug into the traditional system. Or you can get credentials that allow you to get the job or whatever else. And if you're in the developed world and you have access to a school, because you're getting your lectures at your own time and pace, you're getting all your learning at your own time and pace, it's all personalized, you can prove your credentials, the schools become a lot more like a Khan Lab School. Where it is all about experiential learning. It is all about learning at your own pace. It's all about an independence progression and building these meta-cognitive muscles of grit and resilience. And making sure that things like your creativity are fostered. That the credential of the future is about your portfolio and about a peer assessment, and some competency in the traditional sense. But I think as we go on and, you know, I hope to see a lot of this in place in the next five, 10 years. But for sure over the next 20 or 30 years, we have a very serious shot of pulling this off.