This upstart is Salman Khan, a 33-year-old who quit his job as a financial analyst to spend more time making homemade lecture videos in his home studio.
The resulting videos don’t look or feel like typical college lectures or any of the lecture videos that traditional colleges put on their Web sites or YouTube channels.
growing up in a household with 500 or more books is “as great an advantage as having university-educated rather than unschooled parents, and twice the advantage of having a professional rather than an unskilled father.
simply giving low-income children 12 books (of their own choosing) on the first day of summer vacation “may be as effective as summer school” in preventing “summer slide”
Most likely, books and reading feel like the privilege and practice of an unfamiliar world: a resource that’s out there somewhere, but not entirely accessible.
And when I finished, I realized, to my astonishment, that of the 17 I had picked, no fewer than eight had spouses who also taught at the university—seven of them as tenured professors.
Spousal hiring is often described as a “problem” to be solved, or as “the next great challenge facing universities,” to quote “Dual-Career Academic Couples,” an influential 2008 report published by Stanford University.
ちなみに、第二位に上がっているSchool of Hard Knocksは知る人ぞ知る隠れた名門校…ではなく、
The School of Hard Knocks or the School of Hard Knocks and Tough Surprises is an idiomatic phrase meaning the (sometimes painful) education one gets from life’s usually negative experiences, often contrasted with formal education. (wikipedia)
