The Internet will save higher education, but it may kill your alma mater.

After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.

I hated being a public company CEO.

You still remember your SAT scores. And everybody else does too. Everybody's forgotten everything about themselves, everything else about high school. They remember their SAT scores.

We should get rid of the SAT as fast as we can. Look, there are bigger problems in society. This is not the biggest problem we have. But it's so easy to get rid of it. Right? Just pull the plug.

I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students.

I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach of getting there.

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.

Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.

There shouldn't be one Sal Khan - there should be 100,000 of them.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

The spirit of a painting is very hard to explain and articulate. I can't say it's not intentional because that is the mark I'm trying to hit, however I don't feel I have much control over it.

It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands.

Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness.

There are so many things to be considered in making music. The whole question of life itself... I know that I want to produce beautiful music, music that does things to people that they need.

When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.

Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

Even famous people - are most concerned of all with what people who are close to them think. And the sociopath is generally not concerned with that at all.

Did you know, you're sort of beautiful?' 'You hit your head pretty hard, didn't you?

Seek those who help you hear your own heart.