Benjamin Aguillon

“Can you imagine if someone told Einstein, Okay, wrap up this relativity thing, we’re moving on to European history? Or said to Michelangelo, Time’s up for the ceiling, now go paint the walls. Yet versions of this snuffing out of creativity and boundary-stretching thought happen all the time in conventional schools.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

“Because it's there.”
― George Mallory

“Enterprising government employees become consultants.”
― Jerry Z. Muller, The Tyranny of Metrics

“Thus the powerful tend to have a bias toward the status quo; our educational customs tend to perpetuate themselves, and because they interconnect with so many other aspects of our culture, they are extraordinarily difficult to change.”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined