Political Quotes

“I spent 20 years in public education at the university level training young men and women to practice lifelong learning. The field that I was a part of was in computer and information systems, and I began that adventure in the early 1970s. Between the early 1970s and 2000 the industry changed virtually every 18 months. So it was a constant struggle to keep up with the technology, to keep up with the concepts and the techniques, first as a practicing professional but later as a faculty member at Georgia Southern, to be able to train my students in a discipline that was a constant change. That is what we face in our Nation today. That is what we face across the spectrum. I think what I want to talk about tonight, I appreciate my good friend from Georgia in his work on the Committee on Education and the Workforce with me and the gentleman from North Carolina. The bills that came out of the House today were important and significant on higher education.”