Marco Rubio Quotes

It is inevitable that we will need digital technology to re-imagine learning beyond schooling. Even if it is only to inspire people to do more things physically.

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

The future of education is individualized education.

Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.

I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

I don't think we will put higher-ed out of business. I think we'll evolve it. More access, higher quality, lower costs, more global reach.

What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.

The education process is moving beyond the traditional classroom/lecture setting. More and more teachers are seeking tools and techniques to engage their classes and enrich their lessons. Video calling is one of these tools, as it removes barriers to communication and lets students move beyond the boundaries of their classrooms.

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.

I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

There is incredible potential for digital technology in and beyond the classroom, but it is vital to rethink how learning is organised if we are to reap the rewards.

Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating.

I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

Our education system is not meeting the needs of today’s workforce much less tomorrow’s.

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.

I'm starting a virtual school for the world, teaching things the way I wanted to be taught.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed, countries like India and China will take good-paying jobs that should be ours.

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

What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need outside the classroom. So, having a system that had more emphasis on inquiry and exploration but also on learning and practising specific skills would fit much better with how we know people learn.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

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

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.