Quotes by Major Owens

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

I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.

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.

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.

We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teachers salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and womens 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.

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

Its a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.

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

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

Theres 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.