Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.
School and I never seemed to walk hand in hand.
The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.
Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.
When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.
We decided that our first job was to help the schools serving the children from the very lowest income groups. Those families constitute the number one burden, the number one burden in this Nation on the school systems.
Johnny can get down and Johnny can throw up, but Johnny can't read.
The children were singing beer commercials. If they could learn from beer commercials why can't they learn 1,2, 3 and more.
She went on to found and develop Sesame Street for pre-school children.
My education was very tough.
So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.
Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.
I went to school like any other regular student till Class VIII, and my favourite subject was math. From Class IX, things got a little difficult to manage. I was inclined towards studies, but then I also had to give time to badminton.
It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.
Education from six-year-old to 14 is compulsory in Nigeria, but the simple fact is that a lack of resources, coupled with peoples' inability to afford books and uniforms mean the reality for millions of Nigerian children is a life without education.
I wasn't very good at school and couldn't get my head round it.