Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
We can do it better more consistently and in the end it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.
Therefore you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.
I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of or will not admit to which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.
We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.
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.
I do not think we are ever going to be able to for a long time get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.
I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.
You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda with respect to education the need to do much better with modern educational technology.
Excitement in education and student productivity the ability to get a result that you want from students go together and cannot be separated.
