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Good Monday Everyone! ➡️ To motivate us for the week 🙌
➡️ This Story Was Too Inspiring Not To Share: 🌸Sultana's story🌸
Sultana grew up in Afghanistan, and when the Taliban took over her town, they forbade all the young girls from going to school.
Khan Academy became her lifeline.
She studied everything from elementary school math to algebra and trigonometry, eventually moving on to physics, chemistry and other subjects.
All from her home, using Khan Academy’s free online lessons and courses.
Here’s how Sultana later described the experience in a 2021 article in The Economist :
“Armed with an iPad, the internet and a free education website called Khan Academy, I taught myself English. And philosophy. And math. And science. And history. I wanted to understand the world in every way possible, and my place in it. Solving math problems gave structure to the uncertain world I was living in, even if just in my head. I felt liberated when I first learned to make a graph of a linear equation. On the page, drawing a two-dimensional coordinate plane and graphing an equation, the world was in my control.”
Sultana then decided that she wanted to be a theoretical physicist in the US. So, she smuggled herself into Pakistan to take the SAT because the test wasn’t offered in Afghanistan… and she PASSED!
Soon after, she was admitted to Arizona State University, graduating with honors!
Where’s Sultana now?
She’s currently a member of the research faculty at Tufts University studying quantum computing.
Isn't that awesome?! 🌟The world's most precious resource is the persistent and passionate human mind 🌟
Even as the world changes rapidly around us, we should never forget that we are powerful beyond measure.
With AI and other exponential tech supporting us, we can have many more Sultanas in the future. 🙌
➡️ This Story Was Too Inspiring Not To Share: 🌸Sultana's story🌸
Sultana grew up in Afghanistan, and when the Taliban took over her town, they forbade all the young girls from going to school.
Khan Academy became her lifeline.
She studied everything from elementary school math to algebra and trigonometry, eventually moving on to physics, chemistry and other subjects.
All from her home, using Khan Academy’s free online lessons and courses.
Here’s how Sultana later described the experience in a 2021 article in The Economist :
“Armed with an iPad, the internet and a free education website called Khan Academy, I taught myself English. And philosophy. And math. And science. And history. I wanted to understand the world in every way possible, and my place in it. Solving math problems gave structure to the uncertain world I was living in, even if just in my head. I felt liberated when I first learned to make a graph of a linear equation. On the page, drawing a two-dimensional coordinate plane and graphing an equation, the world was in my control.”
Sultana then decided that she wanted to be a theoretical physicist in the US. So, she smuggled herself into Pakistan to take the SAT because the test wasn’t offered in Afghanistan… and she PASSED!
Soon after, she was admitted to Arizona State University, graduating with honors!
Where’s Sultana now?
She’s currently a member of the research faculty at Tufts University studying quantum computing.
Isn't that awesome?! 🌟The world's most precious resource is the persistent and passionate human mind 🌟
Even as the world changes rapidly around us, we should never forget that we are powerful beyond measure.
With AI and other exponential tech supporting us, we can have many more Sultanas in the future. 🙌
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Stunning determination,
Beautiful share