Quotes by Sal Khan - Page 2

Formal education must change. It needs to be brought into closer alignment with the world as it actually is, into closer harmony with the way human beings actually learn and thrive.
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Alignment
Formal
Formal Education
Harmony
Thrive
Closer
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I see no reason why there still are large lectures in universities throughout the world. When people gather, they should be interactive, problem-solving, and experimenting; not passively listening.
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Interactive
Lectures
No Reason
Problem Solving
World People See
Experimenting
Gather
Large
Passively
Throughout
Universities
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People who are looked up to in America will often say, 'I don't get math.' And they'll often say it like they're being humble, but they seem almost proud of it because it's acceptable to act this way.
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Acceptable
Math
Proud
Act
Looked
Seem
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I was a good but not super serious student until about 10th grade, until I was about 14 or 15. Then I started to realise how competitive the world is. I started to meet kids who were more high-performing.
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Grade
Realise
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Some of the beauty of a university is that every professor is given a lot of autonomy over what he or she does. That's also what makes it very hard for even a very forward-thinking president to change courses.
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Autonomy
Courses
University
He Or She
Professor
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To be clear, people are the most important part of any classroom. If given the choice between a great teacher and the world's most advanced education technology, I'd pick the teacher any day for my own children.
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Education
Teacher
Children
Classroom
Given
Great Teacher
My Own
Advanced
Between
Part
Important Part
Pick
The Most Important
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The whole reason why we have this kind of assembly line model of education that we inherited from the Prussians, is they were the first people - it's a very egalitarian motive - to say how do we educate everyone.
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Assembly
Assembly Line
Motive
Egalitarian
First People
Inherited
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At a lot of college graduations, you'll hear people say, 'Follow your passions,' and that is important, but no one talks about the stress of not having enough money, the issues of debt, and the issues of work stress.
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College
Debt
Stress
Work Money People
Work Money Enough
Work Money Your
Enough Money
Follow
Hear
Hear People
Passions
People Say
Talks
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What I did by virtue of skipping a lot of classes was get two undergraduate degrees and a master's in four years. It wasn't slacking. There were much more productive ways of learning everything than sitting in lectures.
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Degrees
Lectures
Sitting
Undergraduate
Virtue
Classes
Master
Skipping
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I think history shows us that there is not one credible credential that has come from the for-profit reality, and that is because the for-profit reality is inherently motivated to maximize the level of people that take it.
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Credible
Motivated
Inherently
Maximize
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Our goal is for Khan Academy's software and content to be the best possible learning experience and for it to be for everyone, for free, forever. This is why we are a non-profit, and it's also what drives our small team and supporters.
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Learning Experience
Software
Best Experience Learning
Drives
Supporters
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If high-quality content can be effectively delivered via technology, teachers can devote more time to creating innovative experiences, leading Socratic dialogs, or coaching students one-on-one in more targeted and focused interventions.
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Creating
Focused
High Quality
Innovative
One On One
Teachers
Content
Delivered
Devote
Effectively
Experiences
Leading
Targeted
Via
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I was always asking people about their work. How do you do a job like that? Do you love it? What does it pay? I was lucky to have access to people who could answer my questions. Otherwise, my life could have turned out very differently.
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Access
Life Love Work
Otherwise
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I realized that there are many people who are very good students, but they think of themselves as bad students. At the end of the day, what they are really missing is way to understand where their gaps are and a way to address those gaps.
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Gaps
Missing
Good End Of The Day Day
Address
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Rather than saying, 'I can't do this,' 'Sesame Street' encourages us to say, 'I can't do this... yet!' That one word changes everything. It emphasizes that your capability isn't fixed. It highlights the reality that our brain is like a muscle.
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Brain
Capability
Fixed
Highlights
One Word
Reality
Sesame Street
Muscle
Changes
Encourages
Street
Word
Rather
Saying
Sesame
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Free educational materials will, at minimum, prepare more people for college and allow them to be more successful once they get there. Most students want credentials that employers respect, and free educational materials alone will not do this.
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Credentials
Educational
Employers
Materials
Minimum
More People
Prepare
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The reason the gifted students of the world like Khan Academy is because we don't say, 'Memorize this formula,' but say, 'Let's try to derive it from core principles,' or, 'I forgot my trig identity, so I'm going to just try to prove this to you.'
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Academy
Core
Gifted
Identity
Principles
Prove
Derive
Forgot
Memorize
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I grew up with plenty of smart people. They would beat me at chess; they could solve brain teasers before I could, but then they would struggle in algebra. These were incredibly smart people who simply did not have the foundation in math that I had.
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Algebra
Brain
Chess
Foundation
Grew
Math
Plenty
Smart
Smart People
Solve
Struggle
Did
Beat
Simply
Incredibly
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Some kids grasp a subject faster and race ahead to the next level, while others continue to struggle with the first. The great thing we've seen is that if you let a student take his time to master a concept, he will probably race ahead on the next one.
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Faster
Next
Next Level
Race
Struggle
Ahead
Seen
Concept
First
Master
Grasp
Great Thing
Some
Subject
While
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A lot of times, when kids have problems with algebra or trigonometry, it has nothing to do with the subject matter, has nothing to do with their innate intelligence. It's just they that they had some gaps in elementary school that they never got to fill in.
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Algebra
Elementary School
Gaps
Innate
Subject Matter
Elementary
Fill
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As my kids grow up, I think a lot about the lessons and values I want to impart to them. More than any particular skill or even financial support, I believe perseverance and resilience will serve them best, regardless of what curveball life inevitably throws them.
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Financial
Financial Support
Impart
Lessons
Particular
Perseverance
Resilience
Support
Values
Life Best Believe
Lot
Any
Grow
Even
Grow Up
Inevitably
Regardless
Serve
Skill
Throws
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All too often, technology is treated as a silver bullet for perceived problems in education. This sometimes leads to knee-jerk investments, using scarce resources to invest in software or hardware without a clear notion of how either might actually empower learning.
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Clear
Hardware
Notion
Resources
Scarce
Silver
Software
Treated
Bullet
Invest
Empower
Investments
Leads
Perceived
Using
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What you have in most education software is that they're catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.
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Boxes
Catering
Software
Budget
Check
User
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Can watching video lessons or using interactive software make people smart? No. But I would argue that it can do something even better: create a context in which people can give free rein to their curiosity and natural love of learning so that they realize they're already smart.
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Curiosity
Interactive
Lessons
Natural
Smart
Software
Video
Context
Realize
Rein
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Teachers can use technology-based assessments to inform their instruction. These assessments can quickly produce data and surface patterns that help teachers identify where students are faltering and intervene with targeted coaching immediately, before the student falls too far behind.
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Data
Instruction
Patterns
Produce
Surface
Teachers
Student
Falls
Identify
Immediately
Inform
Intervene
Quickly
Targeted
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The ancient universities was not as based on how many credit hours you're taking and whether you've completed your credit hours. The ancient universities were much more interested in customized, personalized learning... Where you have a mentor and where you're learning at your own pace.
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Ancient
Credit
Hours
Pace
Personalized
Based
Interested
Completed
Taking
Universities
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In Idaho, we hope to see educators using Khan Academy to individualize their instruction. Instead of a one-size-fits-all lesson, teachers will be able to focus their attention on specific students who are struggling while the rest of the class engages with material appropriate for them.
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Academy
Appropriate
Idaho
Instruction
One Size Fits All
Educators
Individualize
Lesson
Struggling
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I'd like to see a reality where, if someone wants to work when they turn 18 to help support their family, and they learn at their own pace on something like the Khan Academy or other things, that they can just, on their own, get a bunch of the credits they need just by testing out of things.
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Academy
Bunch
Pace
Credits
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After my parents' divorce in the early seventies, I grew up with my mother, who wasn't super educated herself. But there were a lot of kids from the subcontinent in the neighbourhood, many of whom were academic achievers. So my sister and I grew up around them, and both of us did well in school.
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Academic
Divorce
Seventies
Achievers
Herself
Neighbourhood
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If a student has access to a great school, Khan Academy can supercharge it. It should help a well-resourced school, and if you don't have that, then Khan Academy can have even a bigger impact. But I don't see it as replacing the actual schools... we want to empower teachers and fill in the gaps.
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Academy
Access
Bigger
Gaps
Impact
Actual
Teachers
Student
Empower
Fill
Replacing
Schools
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A good traditional conceptual instruction is what I got from my better professors at MIT. They would be at a chalkboard, and they would literally be explaining something and working through a problem, but it wasn't rote. They were explaining the underlying theory and processes and intuition behind it.
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Explaining
Instruction
Intuition
Mit
Theory
Traditional
Conceptual
Literally
Processes
Rote
Underlying
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You have all this education theory, and people try to make larger statements than maybe what their data would back up, because they've done these small experiments that are tied to a very particular case with a very particular implementation... theory definitely matters, but I think dogma matters less.
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Data
Dogma
Experiments
Implementation
Particular
Statements
Theory
Tied
Back Up
Case
Definitely
Matters
Larger
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It's an old idea. It's arguably the first way that people learn, that, hey, if you need to learn something, if you're having trouble with it, keep working on it until you master it and then you go to a more advanced concept. But in the education systems that all of us grew up in, we all learned at a fixed pace.
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Fixed
Hey
Pace
Advanced
Arguably
Concept
Master
Systems
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One of the biggest ways to level the playing field is to give all young people the same context on what opportunities are out there. And that means touching on some of the questions that are a little taboo in society: How much money do you make? What are your stresses? What would you do differently if you could?
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Taboo
Touching
Money Society People
Context
How Much Money
Playing Field
Stresses
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People in the media and press often say they've never been good at math. It might be that people that consider themselves creative didn't consider themselves good at math or didn't find math interesting at those early stages. And those creative people are disproportionately represented in those influential roles.
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Creative People
Influential
Math
Good People Media
Disproportionately
Stages
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Something happens in school sometimes where you're like, 'Oh, I'm not an expert, and I have to defer to people who are.' And it happens not just in school: it happens in religion, too. Defer to the experts. A printing press is a big deal - they got the Bible, and all of a sudden they could read it for themselves.
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Religion
Bible
Big Deal
Experts
Printing Press
Oh
Read
Deal
Defer
Expert
Press
Sudden
Themselves
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Later in life, when my kids struggle to understand a tricky concept or master a new skill, I want them to have the strength and experience to tell themselves, 'I don't know how to do this... yet!' I want them to be confident that, even if something seems challenging today, they have what it takes to figure it out.
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Tricky
Master
Skill
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The ideal direction is using something like Khan Academy for every student to work at their own pace, to master concepts before moving on, and then the teacher using Khan Academy as a tool so that you can have a room of 20 or 30 kids all working on different things, but you can still kind of administrate that chaos.
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Moving On
Teacher
Academy
Chaos
Concepts
Different Things
Moving
Pace
Direction
Student
Master
Working
Ideal
Room
Tool
Using
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I'd set up the Khan Academy as a not-for-profit in 2008, but I was doing well in my job and initially thought I could fund the Academy myself. But by 2009, I was getting so much good feedback that I told my wife that I wanted to do this full time. We had some funds to fall back on, and I knew doing this made me happy.
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Academy
Fall
Feedback
Fund
Time Good Myself
Initially
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Our mission at Khan Academy is a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere, and college readiness is a crucial part of that. We want to help as many students as possible prepare for college and for life, and since the SAT measures preparedness for college, our partnership with the College Board is a natural fit.
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Education
Academy
College
Crucial
Fit
Natural
Partnership
Readiness
Sat
Students
World Class
Since
Free
Anyone
Board
Possible
Help
Mission
Measures
Prepare
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By early 2009, tens of thousands of students were watching tutorials on the Khan Academy every day. The software I wrote for my cousins had become so popular, it was making my $50-a-month web host crash. The possibilities surrounding the academy were so exciting that I had trouble doing my day job properly. And soon, I quit.
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Academy
Crash
Exciting
Host
Software
Trouble
Job
Day Doing Every Day
Cousins
Day Job
Early
Every Day
Day Every Day Doing
Making
Popular
Properly
Quit
Surrounding
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Thousands
Web
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The math you need for most of finance is ninth-grade algebra, and most people feel reasonably comfortable with that. But I think the financial world there has been - I don't know if it's by design, or this is how it's evolved - there are bad actors who have wanted to obfuscate because you can benefit from the lack of transparency.
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Design
Finance
Algebra
Comfortable
Financial
Math
Transparency
Design World People
Benefit
Reasonably
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No one goes on a direct path, even though it sometimes feels like your peers might be racing ahead. Everyone's trying to figure it out. But if you just put yourself out there, step out of your comfort zone, establish yourself in terms of skills, mentorship, but leave space for your passions, then you're going to turn out pretty well.
Sal Khan /
Space
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Direct
Feels
Might
Path
Racing
Skills
Trying
Zone
Yourself
Path Yourself Your
Then
Ahead
Pretty
Everyone
Leave
Establish
Even
Figure
Goes
Put
Well
Passions
Terms
Step
Though
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