I suppose this could have made a good movie. But a successful movie must have a happy ending. No movie will ever be made about my teaching or my students. There was no happy ending. Communications technology should give every child in every classroom in every school in every neighborhood a chance to escape the confines of their fortress school . . . to escape the limits of their surroundings. . .
Communications technology offers the chance to break down walls without tearing down walls.
It is the chance to deliver to the children of the children I let down a quarter of a century ago. That's something I sure would like to do, and I need your help. So I know you won't let me down. I know you'll help us write the simple rules that extend the opportunities of the 21st century to all the children in our country.