Sebastian Thrun Quotes

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

As Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority.

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.

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.

If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.

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.

America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.

And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.

We must revamp K-12 education law to ensure Washington does not stand in the way of meaningful reforms.

I want to change the world. I want to be a part of culture. I want to help teach.

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

In the education debate, people are so passionate about their ideas that we often end up expending more energy shouting at each other than we do pushing for the fundamentals to success in all schools.

The most important domestic issue we face is education…and education is so broken.

For many years we have spent a great deal of effort and money on school reform. Yet where are we today?

The innovation and creativity that's so manifest in the rest of society needs to be turned on our school systems.

We have to fix the education system.

Education reforms must be the priority for governments.

To some people, Common Core means what it actually is, which is a set of standards. That's not necessarily most people. To other people, Common Core is a new curriculum that's been implemented at their school that they don't understand. It's applying new teaching tools.

We need better public education and more realistic education.

I expect there will be more schools of any kind that haven't even been invented yet.

I think one percent of the population attended college when Wallace Stevens and Robert Frost and Gertrude Stein were at Harvard. Now I think forty percent of Americans have some college education. That's an astronomical change.

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

You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself, it's just 8th grade ... An 8th-grade education doesn't cut it today. Let's give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library!