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John Katzman Biography

John Katzman (born October 10, 1959) is best known as an educationalist. He has established a number of companies which assist students with their studies and career choices. He has also authored a number of books on the subject.

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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 cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective.

Allow, Cost Benefit Analysis, Effective, Lower, School, Technology

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 want to have, a product that you want to have. You're utterly focused on your users or your customers and their needs, and trying to figure out how to meet those needs.

Needs, Remake, Startups, Team, Trying

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 on the fly in a fashion similar to an architect sketching.

Design Process, Fashion, Fly, Planning, Similarities, Sketching

There shouldn't be one Sal Khan - there should be 100,000 of them.

100000, Khan, Sal, Should

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 plans set by even the most well-meaning public servants.

Believe, Servants, Set, Years, Yield

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.

Discovery, Educational, Exciting, Neuroscience, Understanding, Understandings

I hated being a public company CEO.

Ceo, Company, Hated, Public

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 other people might've. . . I think you want to move on when you've given your best work and then feel that you're not going to add as much value moving forward.

Add, Given, Moving, People, Public, Thinking

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, there is nothing online that is both great in quality and small in scale. Amazon wasn't originally a better bookstore than the small shops we mourn, but it is now.

Costs, Invest, Market, Market Leaders, Quality, Technology

The Internet will save higher education, but it may kill your alma mater.

May, Alma Mater, Internet, Mater, Save, Higher

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 we have. But it's so easy to get rid of it. Right? Just pull the plug.

Easy, Looks, Plug, Problem, Problems

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 them. Desktop publishing makes everything look slick. When you present sketches, it helps start the dialogue and collaboration.

Collaboration, Information, Making, Marketing, People, Sketches

After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.

Development, Graduation, Jobs, Month, Thinking, Took

I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students.

Course, Prep, Sat, Students, Taken

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