“As my kids grow up, I think a lot about the lessons and values I want ...” — Sal Khan Quote

As my kids grow up, I think a lot about the lessons and values I want to impart to them. More than any particular skill or even financial support, I believe perseverance and resilience will serve them best, regardless of what curveball life inevitably throws them.

Something happens in school sometimes where you're like, 'Oh, I'm not an expert, and I have to defer to people who are.' And it happens not just in school: it happens in religion, too. Defer to the experts. A printing press is a big deal - they got the Bible, and all of a sudden they could read it for themselves.

There is too much acceptance of people saying, 'I am a math person, or I am an artsy person.' It makes me cringe.

I hope I could spend the rest of my life learning and communicating.

When you write for kids, people always ask you what lesson you mean to impart. I don't think adult writers get that question. I never mean to teach anybody a lesson, because I don't know anything myself.

The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.

Government should take necessary steps to add music into school syllabus and impart knowledge to the students.

Because I've got younger sisters, I want to impart on them the possibility of being a strong woman in whatever role I choose.

Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.