There are so many people around the world in need of high-quality education and really starving for education.

We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.

High-quality education provided by MOOCs can be a significant factor in opening doors to opportunity—even among the college-educated.

Even though there is rampant unemployment in many parts of the world, there are still large numbers of jobs that are going unfilled because employers are having a hard time identifying people with the right set of skills.

In many of our [online] courses, the median response time for a question on the question and answer forum was 22 minutes - which is not a level of service I have ever offered to my Stanford students.

I would like to make it so that education was a right, and not a privilege.

The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.