Sebastian Thrun Quotes
I was a popular professor. My teaching ratings were usually good. I could take complicated subjects and explain them in an entertaining way.
Actually, this is a classic case of what the scientists call “co-morbidity”. There are a number of factors that determine whether or not children will do well in school, and each of them are factors. Certainly the teacher is one critical factor, that resonates with most of us as we can remember the inspirational and better teachers that we ourselves experienced. However, there are many people who receive good educations without particularly inspirational teachers. Some who have sufficient motivation are even self taught. Parental influence is a major factor but there have been many exceptional educations obtained by children who were orphans or who came from dysfunctional families with uneducated, ignorant parents who saw little or no value in education. Any improvements we can make in any of these factors will produce better educational outcomes.
Sebastian Thrun is an entrepreneur, educator, and computer scientist from Germany. He is CEO of Kitty Hawk Corporation, and chairman and co-founder of Udacity. Before that, he was a Google VP and Fellow, a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, and before that at Carnegie Mellon University. At Google, he founded Google X and Google's self-driving car team. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and at Georgia Tech.
