Future of Education Quotes

What is this generation of students worth? It's worth everything.

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

Today's Schools are not Tomorrows Schools. That's a fundamental misconception.

I always wanted to be a teacher. I went to school to be a teacher. And I've always, you know, had this sort of romantic idea about it. But I'm worried about - I'm worried about education.

Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?

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

In 50 years, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them.

The Information Age is, first and foremost, an education age, in which education must start at birth and continue throughout a lifetime. Last year, from this podium, I said that education has to be our highest priority. I have something to say to every family listening to us tonight: Your children can go on to college.... Because of the things that have been done, we can make college as universal in the 21st century as high school is today. And, my friends, that will change the face and future of America.

The world has changed, but education has not changed with it.

My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.

Education is at a turning point

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.

Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.