Major Owens Quotes
Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
High gas prices are eating away at consumers disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.
Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.
Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
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.
It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.
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 can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.
The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.
Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.
In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it.
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.
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.
