John Katzman Quotations

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

I am always making sketches of how information should look or mapping out a marketing campaign. When I present my notes, people start responding to them. Desktop publishing makes everything look slick. When you present sketches, it helps start the dialogue and collaboration.

Americans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better solutions than five-year plans set by even the most well-meaning public servants.

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

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.

I hated being a public company CEO.

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.

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