LeVar Burton
LeVar Burton
Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr., professionally known as LeVar Burton, is an American actor, presenter, director, and author. He is best known for his roles as the young Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning ABC television miniseries Roots, Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and as the host of the long-running PBS children's series Reading Rainbow. He has also directed a number of television episodes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth16 February 1957
CityLandstuhl, Germany
CountryUnited States of America
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.
We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.
We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.
That's not a role you prepare for. There's no preparation. You don't have time to prepare for the reading of an audiobook. You do the reading of an audiobook in basically two days' time - an unabridged version, maybe three days.
Jim Carrey can do anything he wants, right? There are guys like that. I'm not one of those guys, so my career has been cobbled together with what the universe has put in front of me.
For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book.
There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.
And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.
If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.
I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.
I've always been the sort of guy who's happiest doing more than one thing at a time.
After many years of training myself, strong emotions are now a trigger for me to look at something. I think that all emotions are triggers for us to grow in our level of consciousness.
The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
Kids are sponges. They will emulate what they see and what they're exposed to.