Daphne Koller famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity â€¦ by actually talking with them.
-- Daphne Koller

#Creativity #Talking #Mind
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.
-- Daphne Koller

#Two #Keys #Careers
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.
-- Daphne Koller

#Teacher #Mean #Doors
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.
-- Daphne Koller

#Fads #Realizing #Online
I would like to make it so that education was a right, and not a privilege.
-- Daphne Koller

#Privilege
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.
-- Daphne Koller

#Jobs #Class #Skills
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.
-- Daphne Koller

#Jobs #Hard Times #Skills
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.
-- Daphne Koller

#Ethos #People #Valleys
There are so many people around the world in need of high-quality education and really starving for education.
-- Daphne Koller

#People #Quality #World
As a society, we can and should invest more money in education.
-- Daphne Koller

#Should #More Money
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.
-- Daphne Koller

#Teaching #School #College
The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.
-- Daphne Koller

#World #Noise #Needs
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.
-- Daphne Koller

#Motivation #Inspiration #Questions And Answers
High-quality education provided by MOOCs can be a significant factor in opening doors to opportunityâ€”even among the college-educated.
-- Daphne Koller

#Opportunity #College #Doors

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