Major Owens Quotes

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 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.

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.

We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.

The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.

The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.

The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.

The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.

There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.

There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction.

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.

Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.

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.

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great.

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.

I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.