Sal Khan Quotes

Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.

And part of my vision is to do dynamic videos for kids.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.

My mode of presentation is short-form video - basically I create fast cut, impassioned 'idea explainers' that explode with enthusiasm and intensity as they distill how technology is expanding our sphere of possibility.

I'd like to help other YouTubers.

I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right.

My goal was to leverage the power of movies and the reach they have and include important messages. Of course, they still have to be entertaining so that people will watch them, but I wanted to make sure there was a message, a takeaway.

Teaching is good for me. It forces me to articulate ways of doing things or rules of thumb that I've sort of taken for granted.

I'm a YouTuber; I want to share my information. I want to share my tips and tricks and hacks and everything I possibly can with my audience because they've done so much for me.

When I sit down and make videos, my No. 1 thought is that I want to make a video that I want to watch.

Coaching is definitely different. I've got the knowledge but it's about communicating that to others in a manner they can understand. There's an art to that and the more you practise, the better you get.

I don't think you can beat your audience over the head with hard-hitting cartoons day after day after day.

It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

Solidly know content you feel passionate about and that your audience needs to know.

I think the worst thing you can do is take an arrogant approach and not give people enough content to wrap their heads around.

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

People love stories and the more you can give information and knowledge and even wisdom through a story, the more likely you are to be heard.

Nothing was more valuable than the printed word.

Bullets on a presentation slide are too often like bullets in a gun - deadly for those on the receiving end.

You cannot teach what you don't know. You cannot give energy if you're not on fire on the inside.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting-often unwilling-recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that.