Major Owens Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

“Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.”

“We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.”

“The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.”

“People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.”

“Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.”

“Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.”

“The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.”

“It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.”