Sal Khan Quotes

If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a better place, then at or very near the top would be its commitment to universal education.

A memorable change must be made in the system of education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of society nearer the to the higher.

The education of a nation instead of being confined to a few schools and universities for the instruction of the few, must become the national care and expense for the formation of the many.

Germany did not acquire its admirable educational system by popular demand … the crowd cannot guide itself, cannot help itself in its blind impotence.

All schools will operate under the surveillance of the state. In order to obtain for Ottoman citizens an education of a homogenous and uniform character, the officials schools will be open, their instruction will be free, and all nationalities will be admitted.

Any nation wishing to promote national education could not expect to achieve its aims until it took it control of education in its own hands

The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing identical people for a machine that no longer exists.

Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.

You cannot simply put more money into the same system and get better results, so we will need to reform and innovate in the delivery of education.

In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.

I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity.

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

It's time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education.

A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.

It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.

The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected to do a good job with something really important, like educating our children?

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

We're living in a world of piranha economics in regard to education.

We should have a national standard. State by state is death.

The public schools have indeed been the most powerful single engine of subversion that our enemies have used upon us.

No country can ever flourish or make its mark as a nation, as long as the principle of (educational) compulsion is absent

Schools were not just places to learn. They were epicenters of social revolution.

Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interferes with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.