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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

I’m fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There’s something about that period that’s epic and tragic. There’s a point after the industrial period where it seems like humanity’s finally going to make it right. There were advances in medicine and technology and education. People are going to be able to live longer lives; literacy is starting to spread. It seemed like finally, after centuries of toiling and misery, that humanity was going to get to a better stage. And then what happens is precisely the contrary. Humanity betrays itself.

We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher’s hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event.

The technology itself is not transformative. It’s the school, the pedagogy, that is transformative.