Wendy Kopp Quotes

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.

I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.

In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

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.

The online revolution of education has only just begun. There are two approached to solving educational problems: Government spending and Technology. My bet is on technology.

The Internet is an interesting tool to use to reach people with things that you might call 'Disney learning,'

The amount of education, in the most basic sense of the word, I receive on a daily basis through Skype amazes me. The technology is one of the reasons I wanted to join Skype and am eager to get Skype into every classroom around the globe.

Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.

I really believe that we have to work hard to make online education better and better, and eventually it's going to be really great. But like most of these things, it takes time to improve, to understand and to make things really good.

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

A really large number of teachers contact us offline testifying how valuable iPads are for their students.

With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.

With the help of technology, teachers will be leaders in the transformation of education around the world.

Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology.

The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.

I do home schooling. I went to regular school until fifth grade, and then I started doing home schooling, which it's completely different. I have a teacher on set with me and I just work with her, one-on-one.

We know everything about what you know and how you learn best because we get so much data. And education is the highest-stakes media product in your life. It's infinitely more important than your Facebook friends' status updates or your Google search results because it's your future.

I feel there is so much more we can do in improving education, making it accessible and understanding how technology can be a part of the solution.

Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.

So I think that, yes, anything that makes it more palatable and easier to understand, such as a Virtual Centre, has to be seen as a primary activity within the educational and information global state.

What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.