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role in the future. When talking about this, I must mention
the Khan Academy.

The founder of the Academy is an Indian, Salman Khan,
who was born in the U.S. and obtained a bachelor's

degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) and an MBA from Harvard University. He was initially
engaged in fund management. By chance, his YouTube
video tutorial on mathematics received a great response,
and then he founded the Khan Academy. Since 2009, he

072 has been working full-time producing educational videos
and uploading them to YouTube. The number of views for
these videos in his first year exceeded 450 million.

This non-profit online learning platform encourages people
of all ages to receive education free of charge anytime and
anywhere. The platform contains 6,500 videos, including
on mathematics, science, computer programmes, history,

economics, etc., and they have been translated into at
least 36 languages.

For education in the future, Khan also put forward many