Sal Khan Quotes

As technology plays a major role inside and outside the classroom, we want to make sure education innovation is accessible.

There's no question in my mind of the value in technology in fueling young minds. Like any other tool, if you simply throw it in the classroom and don't consider how best to take advantage of that tool, and you try the old ways with a new piece of technology on the desk, it's no panacea.

Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.

There is incredible potential for digital technology in and beyond the classroom, but it is vital to rethink how learning is organised if we are to reap the rewards.

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

Let students use technologies in the classroom.

All the industries we deal with have a fundamental obligation to provide technology to education.

The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.

Kids are prone to be on their phone and their iPads, prone to sharing things and making things. Instead of trying to divorce education from that, let's lean into that.

The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.

A tablet replacing an exercise book is not innovation, it's just a different way to make notes.

We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.

If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.

School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly.

And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.

We're in an inflection point where it's cheaper to learn to read on a tablet computer than it is to learn to read on paper. And that being the case, it's only a matter of time before every 6-year-old kid has a tablet computer, and we know for a fact, 3- to 4-year-old kids are using tablets and iPads, and 75 and 80 year olds are using them.

It gives me a lot of energy to talk to developers or meet students in classrooms who are using our technology to help learn faster and better. Watching them pursue their passion.

There's a lot to be learned about how digital media, the ability to reach anybody any time, really transforms the peer interaction experience in education at large.

A really large number of teachers contact us offline testifying how valuable iPads are for their students.

I don't want technology to replace teachers, but where there are no teachers, or the teachers are overwhelmed, it can be helpful.

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.

My daughter can work on an iPhone and iPad like crazy. That's their world. If you can use that, use it educationally. They can learn while they're having so much fun. They don't even realize they're learning.

Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology.