The impact of giving someone a connected smartphone is no different from giving them a real computer. I look at how my kids learn and how different it is from how I learned because the impact of these things is just so huge. Sometimes I think we don't fully internalize what it is to get the power of knowledge in everyone's hand.
Interpretation
Smartphones provide access to knowledge comparable to that of a computer, transforming learning experiences for children.
In this quote, Sundar Pichai emphasizes the profound influence that connected smartphones have on education and learning. He reflects on the differences in how children learn today compared to previous generations, noting that the accessibility of knowledge through technology can significantly enhance their educational experiences. Pichai highlights a need to recognize the transformative power that these devices bring, enabling knowledge to be readily available to everyone.
In practice
In a presentation about the future of education, I included this quote to stress the importance of integrating technology into learning.
For me, it matters that we drive technology as an equalizing force, as an enabler for everyone around the world. Which is why I do want Google to see, push, and invest more in making sure computing is more accessible, connectivity is more accessible.
What strikes me every single time is that the aspirations of Indians are unique and unparalleled. They're very demanding, regardless of background.
The thing which attracted me to Google and to the Internet in general is that it's a great equalizer. I've always been struck by the fact that Google search worked the same, as long as you had access to a computer with connectivity, if you're a rural kid anywhere or a professor at Stanford or Harvard.
Android was built to be very, very secure.
This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One submits oneself to other minds (teachers) in order to increase the chance that one will be looking in the right direction when a comet makes its sweep through a certain patch of sky.
Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.
There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum.
You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.
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