My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. Its in the education business. – Nicholas Negroponte
Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation. – Nicholas Negroponte
If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop. – Nicholas Negroponte
Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they… can never be without some element of education. – Nicholas Negroponte
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of mans future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individuals total development lags behind? – Maria Montessori