Sal Khan Quotes

The ideal direction is using something like Khan Academy for every student to work at their own pace, to master concepts before moving on, and then the teacher using Khan Academy as a tool so that you can have a room of 20 or 30 kids all working on different things, but you can still kind of administrate that chaos.

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

You have to have teachers who are empowered to facilitate great teaching.

To be clear, people are the most important part of any classroom. If given the choice between a great teacher and the world's most advanced education technology, I'd pick the teacher any day for my own children.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Some of the teachers were just doing their job, but others had that little extra. They really cared about children and they wore pretty dresses.

Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching.

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

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.

Let students use technologies in the classroom.

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

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

The best teachers are those who keep students motivated, challenged and flourishing.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'

People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.

Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.