Jose Ferreira Quotes & Sayings

“I had started teaching because I love brainteasers. At some point, I had taken every standardized test out there - the SATs, the GREs, the GMATs, the MCATs. I just took them for fun.”

“If I had to give one piece of advice to a budding entrepreneur, I would say: 'Aim big.'”

“Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too.”

“If the penalty for hiring illegals is just a fine, it becomes a business decision. But if the penalty is jail time, illegal immigration will come to a screeching halt.”

“Anyone who sincerely wanted to use policy to reduce illegal immigration should start by crafting legislation based on changing actual behavior.”

“Big data in education has huge potential to improve learning materials.”

“Education has always produced an incredible amount of data; that's always been obvious to me. But technology had to catch up.”

“I found school very boring and frustrating.”

“I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system.”

“In a crisis, markets always look to see who is the next-worst off and proactively begin shying away from them.”