Many people in the town had given money to help pay for lessons for the young pianist.
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The notion of using the flipped classroom to help guide students to greater understanding by connecting them to true subject matter expert resources is the approach behind the Khan Academy, whose founder, Sal Khan, started by recording simple but engaging math lessonsfor a young cousin, and posting the videos on YouTube.
Even so, foryoung people struggling with drugs, alcohol abuse and violence, the toughest lessons may not be in math and history, but in honesty and self-control.