Bill Gates Quotes

A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities.

The Internet is an interesting tool to use to reach people with things that you might call 'Disney learning,'

I don't think there's nearly enough interesting ways to do education online, particularly for younger children.

Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.

The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.

Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.

Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.

So I think that, yes, anything that makes it more palatable and easier to understand, such as a Virtual Centre, has to be seen as a primary activity within the educational and information global state.

Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.

In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.

I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.

I believe e-courses will eventually change people's attitude toward learning. Education will play an increasingly dominant role in people's lives. For people of all ages and all geographies.

You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.

At the end of the day, I think the more online educators there are, I think the better off the whole world is.

By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.

Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast

With FutureLearn there are so many free courses and we like learning all the time.

As technology plays a major role inside and outside the classroom, we want to make sure education innovation is accessible.

This is going to sound weird, but I never went to normal school; I went to online school.

The global e-learning online market is on fire. Organizations which feel left out of this non-linear world of opportunities are seeing the need to adopt this new way of lifelong learning.

The online education space, especially in higher education, is ripe for disruption.