I saw otherwise intelligent peers memorizing steps and formulas for the next exam without any sense of the intuition or big picture, only to forget everything within a matter of weeks. I felt like fascinating and INTUITIVE concepts were almost intentionally being butchered into pages and pages of sleep-inducing text and monotonic, scripted lectures. There would be connections in the subject matter that standard curricula would ignore despite the fact that they make the content easier to understand, enjoy, and RETAIN. "A lot of my own educational experience was spent frustrated with how information was conveyed in textbooks and lectures. I don't think any corporate or governmental effort-regardless of how much money is thrown at the problem-can reproduce this." Viewers know that it is the labor of love of one somewhat quirky and determined man who has a passion for learning and teaching.
The concepts are conveyed as they are understood by me, not as they are written in a textbook developed by an educational bureaucracy. The lectures are coming from me, an actual human being who is fascinated by the world around him. Sal describes his teaching style as follows: “I teach the way that I wish I was taught. The less obvious distinctions are, however, what makes the site hard to reproduce. The conversational style of the videos is the tonal antithesis of what people traditionally associate with math and science instruction. The content is made in digestible 5-20 minute chunks especially purposed for viewing on the computer as opposed to being a longer video of a conventional "physical" lecture. With thousands of videos, it is easily the most exhaustive collection of instruction on the Internet allowing learners to know that they can fill in almost any of their "gaps" with the content on this site.
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