Major Owens's Quotes

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.

The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.

There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.

There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction.

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.

Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.

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.

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.

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

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

People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?'

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

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

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.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

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

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.