Stephen Downes quotes:

E-learning as we know it has been around for ten years or so. During that time, it has emerged from being a radical idea---the effectiveness of which was yet to be proven---to something that is widely regarded as mainstream. It's the core to numerous business plans and a service offered by most colleges and universities. And now, e-learning is evolving with the World Wide Web as a whole and it's changing to a degree significant enough to warrant a new name: E-learning 2.0.

This is the most important principle of reading on the Internet: You must determine for yourself whether or not something is true.

We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves.