Priyamvada Natarajan Quotes

I think universities are trying to figure out how we could use what we know about learning to change our education system, but it is sort of funny that they don't necessarily seem to be consulting the people who are sitting right there on campus.

I think part of the problem is the education system doesn't work - it's not accountable.

I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system.

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

I really believe that we have to work hard to make online education better and better, and eventually it's going to be really great. But like most of these things, it takes time to improve, to understand and to make things really good.

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

America's best teachers are always looking for new ways to bring learning to life.

I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it is hard to say what life will bring my way.

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.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

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

Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.

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.

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

We need to make education so much fun that students can't help but learn.

These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms.

Not everything that happens in an in-person classroom is currently replicated with an online course, and perhaps the experience will never be the quite the same. But there are new opportunities that online learning opens up that would have never been possible without this technology.

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.

Skype is kind of amazing - look at Skype in the classroom - those are things that can really excite your organization. That's what has been really great to me.

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

About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.

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'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.

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