Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.

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.

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.

The Internet rewards scale; by trading higher up-front costs for lower marginal cost, market leaders can invest in better technology and service. As a result, there is nothing online that is both great in quality and small in scale. Amazon wasn't originally a better bookstore than the small shops we mourn, but it is now.

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.

The thing about startups is you can make it, and if it's wrong you can remake it, and you can build a team that you want to have, a product that you want to have. You're utterly focused on your users or your customers and their needs, and trying to figure out how to meet those needs.