Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
Bill GatesRead
Our teachers deserve better feedback.
Interpretation
Teachers need more constructive criticism to improve their performance.
Bill Gates emphasizes the importance of providing teachers with meaningful feedback to enhance their teaching effectiveness and ultimately benefit students. By advocating for better feedback systems, he highlights that educators are crucial in shaping future generations and deserve support for their professional development.
In practice
In a discussion about educational reform, one might say, 'As Bill Gates noted, our teachers deserve better feedback to foster their growth.'
Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting effective teaching in every classroom, charting a path to college and careers for all students, and developing the tools to help all children stay motivated and engaged in their own education. The more states that adopt these college and career based standards, the closer we will be to sharing innovation across state borders and becoming more competitive as a country.
About three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.
These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation.
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker.
If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.
Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.
Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.
Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.
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