Joel Edgerton Quotes

I tell people, 'I have a Ph.D. from Google University.'

The Internet has done so much for so many. It allows women and minorities to have access to education, training, and information that sometimes isn't available to them for whatever reason.

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

Everybody can, you know, go online, read about something, and have an opinion about something.

It simply is not true that everything is now on the Internet, but it is true that the digital resources available through the Internet have enormous potential for education and even for self-empowerment of individuals.

So I think that, yes, anything that makes it more palatable and easier to understand, such as a Virtual Centre, has to be seen as a primary activity within the educational and information global state.

There's so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers and teach themselves everything. Certainly there are millions of people like that. But at the same time, I think it's a pretty small percentage of the population.

When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like, 'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'

I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential?

People are adamant learning is not just looking at a Google page. But it is. Learning is looking at Google pages. What is wrong with that?

Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

At the end of the day, I think the more online educators there are, I think the better off the whole world is.

The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.

The information age is first and foremost an education age in which education must start at birth and continue throughout a lifetime.

The Internet is the single biggest creator of ignorance mankind has ever created, as well as the single biggest eliminator of that ignorance. It’s our ability to filter that eliminates the former and empowers the latter.

The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.

The access to information the web provides is both daunting and exciting. Information that was once secreted away in library stacks is now so much more easily available.

We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight.

You can learn practically anything you want in the world online.

A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to the isolation of the Web.

If the Library of Alexandria was the emblem of our ambition of omniscience, the Web is the emblem of our ambition of omnipresence; the library that contained everything has become the library that contains anything.

If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.

Kids on the Youtube, learning how to be cool.

The biggest reason people don't succeed is because they don't expose themselves to existing information.