"There is a tendency to throw computers at third world problems, which I think is often a distraction. Putting computers in the schools is great, but it may be more important to put teachers in the schools."

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Source : "An Interview with Terry Winograd: Convergence, Ambient Technology, and Success in Innovation". ubiquity.acm.org. October 2008.

Terry Winograd

#Teacher Quotes #School Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The determination of the relationship and mutual dependence of the facts in particular cases must be the first goal of the Physicist; and for this purpose he requires that an exact measurement may be taken in an equally invariable manner anywhere in the world... Also, the history of electricity yields a well-known truth-that the physicist shirking measurement only plays, different from children only in the nature of his game and the construction of his toys.”
“I actually have to consciously stay away from CNN and MSNBC because it will rot my brain and start having me agree with them as they have an argument between the right and the far right while making it seem they are righteous torch-bearers for democracy. Corporate media is insidiously numbing!”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.”
“Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.”
“The only thing that matters is what you do now, here.”
“Beautiful quality that women have, which is we like to get together and gab. It's time to elevate that aspect of being a woman.”
“[God] never will institute an ordinance or give a commandment to His people that is not calculated in its nature to promote that happiness which He has designed, and which will not end in the greatest amount of good and glory to those who become the recipients of His law and ordinances.”
“We have two lives about us,Two worlds in which we dwell,Within us and without us,Alternate Heaven and Hell:-Without, the somber Real,Within, our hearts of hearts, the beautiful Ideal.”

Source : Richard Henry STODDARD (1852). “Poems”

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