Bill Gates Quotes on Education (13 Quotes)

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

We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, ''surrounding'' a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.

There are many years where Waterloo is the university we hire the most people from of any university in the world. Waterloo has always been in the top five every year.

Today the university combines many elements - great lectures, study groups, students in the lab - and the lecture piece should be broken off. The very best lectures from India or the U.S. or Britain will be available in streaming video, so students can consume that wherever they want and don't have to go do that all together in one place.

It's fun to be here. This is my first visit to the university so I thought I'd drop by.

My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

There will be a day, not far distant, when you will be able to conduct business, study, explore the world and its cultures, call up any great entertainment, make friends, attend neighborhood markets, and show pictures to distant relatives without leaving your desk or armchair. It will be more than an object you carry or an appliance you purchase. It will be your passport into a new, mediated way of life.

I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

The impact on our society of the computing revolution is simply breathtaking -- it has changed the way we work, play, learn and communicate.

Part of India's great success in the IT sector comes from the fantastic investment that the government has made over decades in institutions like the Indian Institutes of Technology. India only has six or seven million seats at its universities, and it will need 20 to 25 million, so I think this is a great opportunity to rethink the idea of a university.