Major Owens Quotes

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Major Owens

Profession : Politician

Birth : June 28, 1936

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.

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.

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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.

Major Owens

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.

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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.

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

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We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.

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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.

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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

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I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

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

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He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it', the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great.

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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

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High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.

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

Major Owens