Major Owens Quotes

The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.

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

The online revolution of education has only just begun. There are two approached to solving educational problems: Government spending and Technology. My bet is on technology.

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

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

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

We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.

The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective.

During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top.

The chalkboards are no longer cutting it. We've got to adapt education at every level to this new paradigm to keep our kids competitive. Affordability of technology has to be at the forefront of everything we do.

As technology breaks down the physical barriers of college campuses, the extraordinary intellectual capital of the educator community is becoming available to anyone committed to learning - regardless of age, income or location.

Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.

If we are to make any real, speedy and substantial progress, we must earnestly tackle this question and bring our educational policy and program on the lines suited to the genius of our people, consonant with our history and culture, and having regard to the modern conditions and vast developments that have taken place all over the world. .

We talk nonstop about what needs to be changed, and everyone has excuses for why the changes can't happen. I believe we must change our educational system first to get the changes moving forward. I'm happy to be a voice and get in front of an audience who can help by making education a priority.

Creating a global platform for collaboration in education research and innovation has been the PISA initiative's aspiration from its conception in the late 1990s.

India, with one of the largest education systems in the world, has always been a priority for Khan Academy.

There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation.

I feel there is so much more we can do in improving education, making it accessible and understanding how technology can be a part of the solution.

It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.

Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.

You cannot simply put more money into the same system and get better results, so we will need to reform and innovate in the delivery of education.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.