John Katzman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

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

“I hated being a public company CEO.”

“I think 2tor has a chance of remaking higher ed in a really great way. If we do that, those investors will do well.”

“I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students.”

“When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for teachers of a prep course. I don't remember what it paid, but it was easily double or triple the minimum wage.”

“Why do men outperform women on the SAT? The SAT's supposed to predict college grades. Women do better in high school and they do better in college. What's the problem here? Ah, the more you use, the more you start accepting that the SAT's coachable, the more problems you have with it.”

“I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn't play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team.”

“No two children learn in the same way. While we might agree that every American eight-year-old should be able to read and multiply, beyond those basics, there are few reasons to make every student follow the same path.”