Eli Broad Quotes

Kids are prone to be on their phone and their iPads, prone to sharing things and making things. Instead of trying to divorce education from that, let's lean into that.

A tablet replacing an exercise book is not innovation, it's just a different way to make notes.

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

Growing up, I wish that I'd had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that's out right now.

We're in an inflection point where it's cheaper to learn to read on a tablet computer than it is to learn to read on paper. And that being the case, it's only a matter of time before every 6-year-old kid has a tablet computer, and we know for a fact, 3- to 4-year-old kids are using tablets and iPads, and 75 and 80 year olds are using them.

The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital nation, to education.

In my first remarks as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission to the agency's terrific staff, I stressed that one of my top priorities would be to close the digital divide - the gap between those who use cutting-edge communications services and those who do not.

There's no question in my mind of the value in technology in fueling young minds. Like any other tool, if you simply throw it in the classroom and don't consider how best to take advantage of that tool, and you try the old ways with a new piece of technology on the desk, it's no panacea.

The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.

Soon the digital divide will not be between the haves and the have-nots. It will be between the know-hows and the non-know-hows.

Cell phones were more popular in Cambodia and Uganda because they didn't have phones. We had phones in this country, and we were very late to the table. They're going to adopt e-books much faster than we do.

This idea of the digital native in the bedroom taking down a fascist regime and building a billion-dollar company is a very attractive image, but actually, if you look at the research, young people are on the lowest rung of digital opportunity.

We're building what I call 'software apartheid.' We're in the process of creating a divided society: those who can use technology on one side, and those who can't on the other. And it happens to divide neatly along economic lines.

So long as confusion reigns, there will be no successful global Internet agenda, only contradiction.

There is incredible potential for digital technology in and beyond the classroom, but it is vital to rethink how learning is organised if we are to reap the rewards.

If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education.

Let students use technologies in the classroom.

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it.

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.

If you look where kids are spending time on the Net, they may have all the information in the world, but they're not accessing it.

In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.

The Internet's impact is immense. My students can't imagine ever paying for a book.