Political Quotes

“The point the gentlewoman makes is absolutely correct. If we think about it, when most of us were growing up, our world was much smaller in the sense that we thought about the competition being maybe the community next door, the county next door, or maybe even the State next door. For our young people today, that is not so. It is the whole world. We talk about the world having shrunk. It has only shrunk in that time has shrunk. Because if something happens today on the far side of the world, within seconds it is front page news in Washington, D.C., or hometown, U.S.A. This means that for our children and for us as adults, we have to learn to deal with issues differently. That puts an extra burden on our public schools and on our teachers. When we were talking earlier about the teachers and having training to deal with computers, it really means that the teacher has to be able to integrate their teaching techniques on that computer. Otherwise, the computer is a tool that will not be used.”