Visit: MeTee.com Support this Youtube channel and Design & Publish a T-Shirt using the link above. This channel is brought to you by MeTee T-Shirts: T-shirt design in seconds & always free shipping. - Friday August 5 2011 8:15 am www.msnbc.msn.com The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit educational organization, created in 2006 by MIT graduate educator Salman Khan. With the stated mission of 'providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere', the website supplies a free online collection of more than 2400 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, economics and computer science. The founder of the organization, Salman Khan, was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father is from Barisal, Bangladesh and his mother is from Kolkata, India. After earning three degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (a BS in mathematics, a BS in electrical engineering and computer science, and an MS in electrical engineering and computer science) he pursued an MBA from Harvard Business School. In late 2004, Khan began tutoring his cousin Nadia in mathematics using Yahoo!'s Doodle notepad. When other relatives and friends sought similar help, he decided it would be more practical to distribute the tutorials on YouTube. Their popularity there and the testimonials of appreciative students prompted Khan to quit his job in finance in 2009 and focus on the tutorials (then released ...