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
I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.
Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.
Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.
The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
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.
I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.
If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.
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.
There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.
I feel like I have been able to notice throughout the incremental march of history during the course of my own lifetime patterns emerging, and there's a sort of a rubber band effect that happens where social growth and change is concerned.
I'm excited to see how current and future technologies revolutionize the way we learn.
I have always been a fan of 'Star Trek.' I love Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future.
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.
I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.