Richard Rogers Quotes

A lot of gaming and a lot of interaction is no longer physical; it's all digital and at a distance. There's this innate, tribal need of the people to have face time with other people and play together in person. I think there's been this rediscovery of the joy of playing with people around the table.

The education process is moving beyond the traditional classroom/lecture setting. More and more teachers are seeking tools and techniques to engage their classes and enrich their lessons. Video calling is one of these tools, as it removes barriers to communication and lets students move beyond the boundaries of their classrooms.

I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.

Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.

In the past, a writer had to go outside and get to know others before learning about their work, but the Internet has made humanity more accessible for misanthropes like me. I read blogs, tweets, Facebook posts and Reddit threads where people detail their jobs.

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.

When I started playing music, it was all face-to-face.

Online education, then, can serve two goals. For students lucky enough to have access to great teachers, blended learning can mean even better outcomes at the same or lower cost. And for the millions here and abroad who lack access to good, in-person education, online learning can open doors that would otherwise remain closed.

The advent of interactive communications has created an inflection point where it's economical to provide education differently than in the past.

Indeed, though people increasingly learn and interact online, we retain a fundamental need to engage in person.

Online is ridiculous. Places like Ohio State bring people here together, and students teach each other.

Thanks to technology, you can sit and see the opposition's mistakes and try to learn from them.

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

No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.

Now, I'm a pretty fast and avid reader. But you can't learn the same things in a book or on the Internet that you can in a personal talk with somebody.

People are doing too much e-mail. The basic thing is eyeball-to-eyeball. Business relationships are made to be personal. The more people get away from it, the more they are going to lose that personal relationship. That's what I learned - to develop personal relationships with people.

People need meeting places. You need places where ideas get exchanged and you see each other's faces once in a while.

It turns out that the most powerful use of technology is to connect people together socially.

My schedule won't allow me to go to regular school, but I did love public school, and I did experience my first year of middle school in a regular school.

People en masse have lost the ability to go out there and meet people in real life.

It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories.

I don't exclusively talk to people on social media; I don't meet people through Tinder. I try to keep it face-to-face, and to be aware if my phone is sucking me away from the rest of the world.

I am definitely a person who firmly believes in the human touch and in the importance of people.

I'm good with digital technology, but I start to miss the physical world. I miss riding my bike, talking to friends.

I'm starting a virtual school for the world, teaching things the way I wanted to be taught.