My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.
Nicholas Negroponte
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Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum. -
I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager. -
I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. -
But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active. -
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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- Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
- Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
- We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.
- If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.
- My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.