Daphne Koller Quotes
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Current ethos in Silicon Valley is that if you build a website that people keep coming back to and is changing the lives of millions, you can eventually make money.
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If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.
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The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.
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There are so many people around the world in need of high-quality education and really starving for education.
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Online education, then, can serve two goals. For students lucky enough to have access to great teachers, blended learning can mean even better outcomes at the same or lower cost. And for the millions here and abroad who lack access to good, in-person education, online learning can open doors that would otherwise remain closed.
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In many of our [online] courses, the median response time for a question on the question and answer forum was 22 minutes - which is not a level of service I have ever offered to my Stanford students.
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I would like to make it so that education was a right, and not a privilege.
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High-quality education provided by MOOCs can be a significant factor in opening doors to opportunity—even among the college-educated.
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Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it.
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Juggling a career and a family is a challenge for anyone, and even more so (in general) for women. Probably the most important advice to any woman interested in a career is to pick your life partner with care. Having a supportive partner is key to trying to manage the constraints of these two demanding roles.
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As a society, we can and should invest more money in education.
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Even though there is rampant unemployment in many parts of the world, there are still large numbers of jobs that are going unfilled because employers are having a hard time identifying people with the right set of skills.
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Start marching forward, even when into the new and unknown, and don't be deterred by obstacles.
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Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.
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We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.
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