Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated. – Major Owens
Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools. – Major Owens
I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line. – Major Owens
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. – Major Owens
Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve. – Michael Gove