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. – Major Owens
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
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. – Major Owens
We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teachers salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom. – Major Owens
I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years. – Michele Bachmann