Sal Khan Quotes

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.

I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

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.

It's an old idea. It's arguably the first way that people learn, that, hey, if you need to learn something, if you're having trouble with it, keep working on it until you master it and then you go to a more advanced concept. But in the education systems that all of us grew up in, we all learned at a fixed pace.

The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.

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.

And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.

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

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.

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

I feel like I'm always learning from people.

While we teach, we learn.

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.

I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn.

To learn and to teach, to observe and to do

When you're young and have the opportunity, it's crucial to learn as much as possible about your profession from every possible angle.

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.

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.

I definitely watch the older guys. I'm always watching; that's how I learn.

We learn by taking action and seeing whether it works or not.

Being home-schooled, you really get to explore your hobbies, what you want to do for a living.

I had the chance to learn from some really talented people who have taught me a lot.

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.

Homeschooling is great because it's extremely lenient, and so if there's a day I come home from practice and mentally, I'm just exhausted, I can actually just save the test for the next day if I really have to.