Major Owens Quotes

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

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  Together, Want, Students

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

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  School, Technology, Together

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

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  Educational, Technology, Quality

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• High gas prices are eating away at consumers disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.

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  Income, Fuel, Gasoline

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• 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.

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  Workout, Exercise, Danger

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• Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.

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  Issues, Long, Has Beens

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

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  People, Lines, Admiration

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• 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.

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  Running, Thinking, People

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• 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?'

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  Running, People, Use

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• 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.

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  Rights, Two, People

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• 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.

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  Country, People, Giving

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• 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.

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  Technology, People, Training

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• I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.

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  Educational, School, Math

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• 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.

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  Teacher, Order, People

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

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  People, Legislation, Results

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• 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.

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  Technology, Cost, Students

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• 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.

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  Eye, Cost, Host

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• The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.

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  Self, People, Competition

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

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  Enforcement, Ada, Firsts

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• We have to start with a ban on the manufacturing and import of handguns. From there we register the guns which are currently owned, and follow that with additional bans and acquisitions of handguns and rifles with no sporting purpose.

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  Gun, Rifles, Acquisition

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

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  Leadership, Exercise, Constant

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• Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

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  School, Technology, Challenges

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• 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.

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  Home, Long, Incentives

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• 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.

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  Teacher, Children, Moving

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• Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.

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  Fall, Oil, Gasoline

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