I really enjoyed reading that letter. His point boils down to "You can teach how in a clear way, but you're not teaching the 'why'". I had never thought about t

I really enjoyed reading that letter. His point boils down to "You can teach how in a clear way, but you're not teaching the 'why'". I had never thought about that before, but it seems obvious now. Charlie Munger speaks of taking the big ideas from various disciplines and building a latticework of mental models so that you can use all your knowledge to solve problems. A Khan Academy devotee will learn lots of math and science, and other things, but will he or she understand how it relates to real life, and how to apply those ideas to other disciplines?