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看到這個標題，您的第一反應是不是哈佛大學？錯了。但別說，跟哈佛還真有聯繫。
最近一期《財富》雜誌介紹了由年輕有為的哈佛MBA，已轉業的對沖基金經理 Sal Khan 一手創辦的免費網上學校 Khan Academy。 億萬富翁比爾蓋茨和他11歲的兒子都是粉絲。 這所世界最繁忙的網上學校開設1,600 多門短課， 內容涉及數學，物理， 化學，及其它。 最大的特色是每節課短小精悍，只有15分鐘左右。
有興趣去訪問一下？Here you go!
《財富》文章摘錄如下：
FORTUNE -- Sal Khan, you can count Bill Gates as your newest fan. Gates is a voracious consumer of online education. This past spring a colleague at his small think tank, bgC3, e-mailed him about the nonprofit khanacademy.org, a vast digital trove of free mini-lectures all narrated by Khan, an ebullient, articulate Harvard MBA and former hedge fund manager. Gates replied within minutes. "This guy is amazing," he wrote. "It is awesome how much he has done with very little in the way of resources." Gates and his 11-year-old son, Rory, began soaking up videos, from algebra to biology. Then, several weeks ago, at the Aspen Ideas Festival in front of 2,000 people, Gates gave the 33-year-old Khan a shout-out that any entrepreneur would kill for. Ruminating on what he called the "mind-blowing misallocation" of resources away from education, Gates touted the "unbelievable" 10- to 15-minute Khan Academy tutorials "I've been using with my kids." With admiration and surprise, the world's second-richest person noted that Khan "was a hedge fund guy making lots of money." Now, Gates said, "I'd say we've moved about 160 IQ points from the hedge fund category to the teaching-many-people-in-a-leveraged-way category. It was a good day his wife let him quit his job." Khan wasn't even there -- he learned of Gates' praise through a YouTube video. "It was really cool," Khan says.
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