Isaac Asimov - Computer Outlets

written on December 24, 2012

Once we have computer outlets in every home, each of them hooked up to enormous libraries where anyone can ask any question and be given answers, be given reference materials, be something you’re interested in knowing, from an early age, however silly it might seem to someone else… that’s what YOU are interested in, and you can ask, and you can find out, and you can do it in your own home, at your own speed, in your own direction, in your own time… Then, everyone would enjoy learning. Nowadays, what people call learning is forced on you, and everyone is forced to learn the same thing on the same day at the same speed in class, and everyone is different.” – Isaac Asimov

From: Isaac Asimov on Science and Creativity in Education at Brain Pickings

Image of Isaac Asimov is from his wikipedia entry and in the public domain thanks to the New York World-Telegram & Sun staff photographers