LeVar Burton Quotes

Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

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

You never know, the way technology is going, we might all use the games for scouting by the time I retire.

Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.

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.

Innovation - the heart of technological change - is fundamentally a learning process.

There's a lot to be learned about how digital media, the ability to reach anybody any time, really transforms the peer interaction experience in education at large.

The drive for growth of education technology will further accelerate. Another key area of major growth is e-Health. The overall outlook for the industry is certainly optimistic.

It is difficult to predict technology more than 10 years out with any certitude, but what I observe is that change and innovation happens earlier and faster than we expect. We are constantly surprised at what technology can do.

The coming changes in technology will be as profound as the creation of the Internet.

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

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.

I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.

In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.

100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be?

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now.

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.

I think a lot of people will be liberated from a lot of oppressive manufacturing jobs, or a lot of service jobs, because they'll be done by computers. There'll be the world's best education available online and free.

There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started.