John Katzman Quotes

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• The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that…
• 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,…
• The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than…
• 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…
• Traditionally, universities have seen size as potentially dilutive to quality. If you doubled the size of campus and faculty, most would argue that you would…
• We should get rid of the SAT as fast as we can. Look, there are bigger problems in society. This is not the biggest problem…
• 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…
• I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning…
• After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.
• 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 a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach…
• I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students.
• The Internet will save higher education, but it may kill your alma mater.
• Americans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better solutions than five-year…
• I am always making sketches of how information should look or mapping out a marketing campaign. When I present my notes, people start responding to…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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