Major Owens

"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 close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere."

"Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included."

"I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology."

"The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged."

"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."

"Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools."

"It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home."

"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."

"The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired."

"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."