“Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.”

David Thornburg

“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.”

Former U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki

“We cannot contort the character of the internet to suit our familiar notions of regulation; do not dumb down the genius of the Net to match the limited visions of the regulator”

Michael Powell, Chairman, FCC

“The fates guide those who go willingly; those that do not, they drag.”

Seneca

"Every technology revolution takes twice as long as we expected, and half as long as we are prepared for" Michael Malone’s "Third Law of Technology"

“The real Digital Divide is between schools and the rest of society.”

Allen Schmieder

“We shape our buildings, and afterwards, our buildings shape us.”

Winston Churchill

“Using technology to teach using traditional methods will only lead to traditional results.”

John Bailey, Director, Office of Instructional Technology, U.S. Dept. of Education

“I rarely approach any assignment or question without first consulting online resources. Practically every area of my life has been impacted by my experiences on the web. The Internet has been a gift to my life.”

High school girl

“Telematics not only lets people do things differently, it also lets them do different things, and this is where its greatest power lies.”

David Thornburg

"Nothing is as expensive as living in the past.“

Robinson Davies

“This is the 21st century. Ours is a world of 24 hour news cycles, global markets, and instant messaging. Our education system should reflect the times we’re living in.“

Rod Paige, U.S. Secretary of Education

“Technologies are relentlessly and seamlessly merging, and lines separating the traditional classroom, the technology-enhanced classroom, and distance learning are disappearing rapidly.”

Billie Wahlstrom, Univ. of MN

“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”

Bill Gates

“When the rate of change outside exceeds the rate of change inside, the end is in sight.”

Jack Welch, CEO, General Electric

“It’s very egalitarian... In a virtual school, no one’s overweight, no one has pimples, and no one stutters. I don’t know what their color is, what their gender is, or what clothes they’re wearing.”

Bruce Droste, VHS

“…the medium is never neutral. How we organize and transmit our perceptions and knowledge about the world strongly affects the nature of those perceptions and the way we come to know the world.”

Harold Adam Innis

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”

Eric Hoffer

“Governments are almost always about geography, jurisdiction, and centralized control. The internet is always about unhindered by geography, dismissive of jurisdiction, and decentralized in its control.”

Michael Powell, Chairman, FCC

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools.

Marshall McLuhan

"The Internet is an elite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call."

Noam Chomsky

”The Internet is my education. I get all my information off the Internet. I don’t even look at books anymore."

High school boy

“We’re trying to modify an Edsel to a Corvette going 90 miles per hour.”

Texas college administrator comparing traditional education and distance learning

“Where you live determines the quality of your education. Distance education is the great leveler.”

Tom Layton, Oregon CyberSchool

“The rise of powerful networks is about many things, but primarily it is about the transfer of control.”

Lou Gerstner, IBM CEO