LeVar Burton Quotes

• I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being.

  LeVar Burton

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• 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?

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• 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.

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• We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so s*xy, so engaging for kids.

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• We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.

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• We can’t afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We’ve got to get it done. The future, the health, the life – our nation depends on it and it’s just foolish to think or act otherwise.

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• This wired generation is kind of cool.

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• There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.

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• The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

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• Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.

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• It’s not about division. It’s not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?

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• It’s definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on ‘Star Trek,’ that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

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• It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done.

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• If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that’s a circle of win.

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• I’ve always been interested in gadgets and technology and I’ve always been a reader.

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• I’m excited to see how current and future technologies revolutionize the way we learn.

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• I’m enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.

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• I have always been a fan of ‘Star Trek.’ I love Gene Roddenberry’s vision of the future.

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• I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.

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• I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.

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LeVar Burton (25)

Birth:	16th February, 1957
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Author, Director, Producer

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