Richard Rogers Quotes

A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities.

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

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

Lord knows there's a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education.

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

A tablet replacing an exercise book is not innovation, it's just a different way to make notes.

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

In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

As education becomes dematerialized, demonetized and democratized, every man, woman and child on the planet will be able to reap the benefits of knowledge. We're rapidly heading toward a world of education abundance.

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.

Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.

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.

The Internet is an interesting tool to use to reach people with things that you might call 'Disney learning,'

I don't think there's nearly enough interesting ways to do education online, particularly for younger children.

With FutureLearn there are so many free courses and we like learning all the time.

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

Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology.

The amount of education, in the most basic sense of the word, I receive on a daily basis through Skype amazes me. The technology is one of the reasons I wanted to join Skype and am eager to get Skype into every classroom around the globe.

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

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.

It's funny how sometimes you learn things off the Internet before they're actually told to you.

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

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

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

Google Apps for Education is a suite of applications intended to be helpful to higher level educational institutions, but in the long run, I think Google has a role to play in helping to assemble relevant content for classroom use.