Sal Khan Quotes

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.

I can't learn in school, but I can learn from somebody who I think is cool and great.

You can go to school and learn and that works for some people. But I think the best kind of learning is practical and learning on the job.

One of the brilliant things I realised after I'd left school is that there are so many ways you can learn. I do this best on the job.

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.

In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students have with each other. They need to learn from each other as much as from professors and lectures and other teaching tools.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating.

I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

I had no education whatsoever, and my mother said, 'Oh, you'll get a much better education in life.' I did to some extent, though I always wish I could have tried it.

Many students learn best by doing. But because classrooms force the same pace on all students, they limit the degree to which students can truly learn through trial and error. Instead, lectures still force many students to follow material passively and in lockstep pace.

The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.

I'll always be a student. I learn by doing.

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.

Education has to be more than tests and formulas.

There is a certain amount you can learn from reading, but you also need to see and experience things.

I educate myself, but I haven't got the time or patience to enlist myself in a degree course. The world is my school.

I learned in life from a very young age that I soaked in a lot more from people that I respected and could learn from rather than a textbook.

In a lot of ways, the real learning at RISD happened after-hours when you're working side by side with your colleagues.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.