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“Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“The body part that worked consistently well for Sam was his brain, and he was not going to compromise it.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“But life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Success is self-defined; the only failure lies in giving up.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“It’s not about graduation rates and test scores. It’s about what those things mean to the outcome of human lives. It’s about potential realized or squandered, dignity enhanced or denied.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“well-credentialed educational theorists had long before determined that ten to eighteen minutes was about the limit of students’ attention spans.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“Teachers become more important once students have the initial exposure to a concept online (either through videos or exercises). Teachers can then carve out face time with individual students who are struggling; they can move away from rote lecturing and into the higher tasks of mentoring, inspiring, and providing perspective.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“In Washburne’s system, by contrast, students, with the help of self-paced exercises, proceed at varying rates toward the same level of mastery. Those who learn more quickly can move ahead or do “enrichment exercises.” Those who learn more slowly are helped along by individual tutoring, or peer assistance, or additional homework.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“mastery learning reduces the academic spread between the slower and faster students without slowing down the faster students.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“only by taking responsibility does true learning become possible;”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“In one such study, it was observed that students in mastery programs “developed more positive attitudes about learning and about their ability to learn.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“Denied the opportunity to make even the most basic decisions about how and what they will learn, students stop short of full commitment.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“As we work with the same concept from slightly different angles and investigate questions surrounding it, we build even more and deeper connections. Collectively, this web of connections and associations comprises what we think of informally as understanding.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“It is the connections among concepts—or the lack of connections—that separate the students who memorize a formula for an exam only to forget it the next month and the students who internalize the concepts and are able to apply them when they need them a decade later.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“In my view, no subject is ever finished. No concept is sealed off from other concepts. Knowledge is continuous; ideas flow.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“You can standardize curricula, but you can’t standardize learning.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. —SAINT AUGUSTINE”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“A shaky understanding early on will lead to complete bewilderment later.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“The teachers, rather than giving broadcast lectures, worked with individual students who needed help. Students who caught on faster assisted those who were struggling. Teachers also had the benefit of forming personal connections with students and getting real feedback on student comprehension. The use of technology had, somewhat ironically, made a traditionally passive classroom interactive and human.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“Nearly all the students needed some degree of remediation, and the time spent on finding and fixing the gaps turned out both to save time and deepen learning in the longer term.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“Since we can’t predict exactly what today’s young people will need to know in ten or twenty years, what we teach them is less important than how they learn to teach themselves”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“the crucial task of education is to teach kids how to learn. To lead them to want to learn. To nurture curiosity, to encourage wonder, and to instill confidence so that later on they’ll have the tools for finding answers to the many questions we don’t yet know how to ask.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“as the centerpieces of student appraisal, two things: a running, multiyear narrative not only of what a student has learned but how she learned it; and a portfolio of a student’s creative work.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“the mission statement that has guided Khan Academy since day one: To provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“Plato quote that serves as an epigraph for this book: The elements of instruction… should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion. Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“Brevity Is the Soul of Wit.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“Tock wagged his tail proudly, but Milo didn’t say a word, and to this day no one knows of the lost week but the few people who happened to be awake at 5:23 on that very strange morning.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“as long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong?”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“You must never feel badly about making mistakes,” explained Reason quietly, “as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth: The classic adventure book full of unexpected thrills

“it’s not just learning things that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth