Boring Quote by Nicholas Negroponte Download Open image “Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.” — Nicholas Negroponte ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boring Education Kids Relevant School
There is a belief that children drop out of school because they're needed by their families to work, or the little girls are needed… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools. — Adam Fletcher Copy Share Image
The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring. — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society, — Jaden Smith Copy Share Image
Some people can't leave school because they're carrying it around like a snail and his shell. They live there, still. School became an ingrown,… — Sandra Dodd Copy Share Image
Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended… — James S. Coleman Copy Share Image
At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very… — Ahmet Zappa Copy Share Image
I dropped out of school when I was 15 years old. I dropped out because I guess I wasn't getting anything out of my… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope. — Albert Shanker Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be out of school - and maybe that's the whole point. — Janelle James Copy Share Image
What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Give One, Get One generated about 100,000 zero-dollar laptops. Somebody else paid for them, but from the recipient's point of view, that's zero. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18 years old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff… — Sarah Wright Copy Share Image
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The films I find boring are the ones that have no space for the audience's misconceptions. — Josephine Decker Copy Share Image
It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I've always felt that dark lyrics with dark music is pretty useless. Maybe that's a strong statement - not useless, but for me, it's… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that… — John Cage Copy Share Image