I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children. LeVar Burton More Quotes by LeVar Burton More Quotes From LeVar Burton And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time. LeVar Burton tablets home children I've always been the sort of guy who's happiest doing more than one thing at a time. LeVar Burton one-thing-at-a-time one-thing guy We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids. LeVar Burton sexy technology kids We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way. LeVar Burton cost book way I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader. LeVar Burton gadgets technology reader I'm excited to see how current and future technologies revolutionize the way we learn. LeVar Burton excited technology way I have always been a fan of 'Star Trek.' I love Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future. LeVar Burton visions-of-the-future fans stars I want to live in an America where we are able to marshal all the resources we have at our disposal and that we - people like me, and companies like Apple and Intel and others - can make it our business to put a tablet computer in the hands of every single kid in America. Every single kid. LeVar Burton kids hands america I feel like I have been able to notice throughout the incremental march of history during the course of my own lifetime patterns emerging, and there's a sort of a rubber band effect that happens where social growth and change is concerned. LeVar Burton patterns band growth For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book. LeVar Burton childrens-books book children I'm a firm believer and always have been that there aren't all that many things that you should not express to children in an age-appropriate manner, and as a parent, that is your job - to be discerning as to whether or not your child can handle the information, provided you have the ability to express yourself in that age-appropriate way. LeVar Burton parent jobs children Jim Carrey can do anything he wants, right? There are guys like that. I'm not one of those guys, so my career has been cobbled together with what the universe has put in front of me. LeVar Burton guy careers together That's not a role you prepare for. There's no preparation. You don't have time to prepare for the reading of an audiobook. You do the reading of an audiobook in basically two days' time - an unabridged version, maybe three days. LeVar Burton preparation reading two Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers. LeVar Burton become now storytelling hands It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together? LeVar Burton about how politics together This wired generation is kind of cool. LeVar Burton wired generation cool kind It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done. LeVar Burton sit me government done We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie. LeVar Burton reading want book people Yeah. I do. I think that we have to continue to expand the areas in which we want our kids to be literate. And social media's going to be a part of their lives. And why not? Why not give them a sense of what the rules of the road are? LeVar Burton road rules think media
