Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Quotes

Online education and technology are doubtless going to change how we learn in the years ahead. Remote learning is inexpensive and brings down the cost of near-universal access.

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.

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.

Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.

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

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

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

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

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

The drive for growth of education technology will further accelerate. Another key area of major growth is e-Health. The overall outlook for the industry is certainly optimistic.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The chalkboards are no longer cutting it. We've got to adapt education at every level to this new paradigm to keep our kids competitive. Affordability of technology has to be at the forefront of everything we do.

Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.

I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.

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.

I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.

We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.

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

All the industries we deal with have a fundamental obligation to provide technology to education.