Wayne Gretzky

Wayne Gretzky is the hockey player whose maxim — “Most players skate to where the puck is. I skate to where the puck is going to be” — Angus King invokes in Education Nation to justify investing in students’ digital futures. Milton Chen recounts King (then Governor of Maine, where “hockey is the closest thing to a state sport”) deploying the line to defend one-to-one student laptops over roads and bridges, arguing Maine’s future lay in a digital, scientifically literate workforce as industries like logging declined.

Where this appears

• Education Nation — source of the “skate to where the puck is going to be” maxim, quoted by Governor Angus King and recounted by Milton Chen.