Elite colleges like Stanford are extremely inaccessible. They're failing in their mission to provide access.
Less than one percent of U.S. college students attend Ivy League schools, and these students don't necessarily reflect the world's brightest and most capable thought leaders but, rather, the people who've been afforded the most opportunities to succeed.
I literally worked at research labs where the staff really tried to steer management away from the modern technology that was actually better.
As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that.
Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely.
I'd really love to see a business model for higher education going forward that is actually affordable, that uses modern technology to reach scale and quality and that really reimburses the services rendered in a way that's meaningful to everybody.
It's a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves.
Top notch Indian employers such as Flipkart have hired Udacity Nanodegree graduates based solely on their performance in our programme, without any in-person interview.
There will be no more one-size-fits-all. Education will respond to you.
Perhaps we can get to the point where we can outsource our own personal experiences entirely into a computer - and possibly our own personality.
Most cars are parked at any point in time; my estimate is that I use my car about three percent of the time.
Many students learn best by doing. But because classrooms force the same pace on all students, they limit the degree to which students can truly learn through trial and error. Instead, lectures still force many students to follow material passively and in lockstep pace.
We should have lifelong monitoring of our vital signs that predict things like skin or pancreatic cancer so we can eradicate it. We should have personalized medicine; there's a huge amount of innovation possible.
In my son's kindergarten, they're telling us how to get him into Stanford. By their advice, I'm doing everything wrong, because I'm trying to make him happy rather than putting him through as many piano lessons as possible.
Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really reach for the stars and make the world a better place.
Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admirable higher education system, and yet it is very restrictive. It's so hard to get into. I never got into it as a student.
There are already robotic journalists. Sure, they aren't very good, but they're getting better faster than human journalists are.
I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence.
Education used to be a slice of life, something you did as a child through college, and then spent the rest of your life working, and then death. Everything is about to change. I believe education will become something that fits seamlessly into life, and we will take big clunky things like degrees and college and fit them into a weekend.
Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance.