Alan Patricof Quotes

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

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.

Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now.

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.

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

By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.

I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

Online education, then, can serve two goals. For students lucky enough to have access to great teachers, blended learning can mean even better outcomes at the same or lower cost. And for the millions here and abroad who lack access to good, in-person education, online learning can open doors that would otherwise remain closed.

The old ways of teaching are slow and expensive. But with mobile, cost plummets, access broadens, and pedagogy rises.

The future of education is individualized education.

We have radio and TV in every single part of Mexico. And in every one of the 185,000 schools of Mexico there is an electronic blackboard connected to the Internet—every school.

Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

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

The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective.

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 laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

It's amazing what the Internet can teach you to do.

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