Nicholas Negroponte Quotes


Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.


Citations

Negroponte, Nicholas. "One Laptop per Child." TED, Feb. 2006.

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Traditional Islamic education of the time only dealt with the Koran but the skills of modern life, medicine, law, science were taught in the British secular schools, which Muslims generally would not attend. Kahn urged all is fellow Muslims to benefit from all forms of education.


Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte
  • Born: December 1, 1943
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Academic Computer Scientist

Nicholas Negroponte is a Greek American architect. He is the founder and chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also founded the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC). Negroponte is the author of the 1995 bestseller Being Digital translated into more than forty languages.