Sal Khan Quotes

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

By playing, you learn.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

Always educate yourself.

You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.

Children have such vibrant minds. They need to play. They need to be creative. They need to imagine. It's so important for their sense of self discovery. And it helps them learn problem-solving.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

Conversion brings a drive to learn.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that, by the time they leave school, every boy and girl should know how much they don’t know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it

All learning is in the learner, not in the teacher.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

Education is, in the end, about individual interactions and about learning.

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that.

Everything is educational.

My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as educated.

It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.