Sal Khan Quotes

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

I've never been a big believer in formal education.

The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.

Here's the thing: I consider myself pretty well - for somebody that didn't go to high school, pretty well educated.

Don't get me wrong: school is good and all, but school is way too slow for me. Like, super slow. So I didn't want to go. I wanted to learn on my own with real life experiences.

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 pretty much left full-time, formal education when I was 11, so that was when I was taken out of the school system... The longest stretch I would go back for was a term and a half when I was about 14.

I tell people, 'I have a Ph.D. from Google University.'

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

There's so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers and teach themselves everything. Certainly there are millions of people like that. But at the same time, I think it's a pretty small percentage of the population.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.

My father had very little formal education.

I believe e-courses will eventually change people's attitude toward learning. Education will play an increasingly dominant role in people's lives. For people of all ages and all geographies.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet.