Stephen Downes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Stephen Downes

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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.
-- Stephen Downes

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

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Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.
I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
All of the factors that make up a quality city - safe streets, high paying jobs, strong neighborhoods, etc. - emanate from a strong educational premise.
When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.
Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.
Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
Blaire, This teardrop represents many things. The tears I know youâ€™ve shed over holding your motherâ€™s piece of satin. The tears youâ€™ve shed over each loss youâ€™ve experienced. But it also represents the tears weâ€™ve both shed as weâ€™ve felt the little life inside you begin to move. The tears Iâ€™ve shed over the fact Iâ€™ve been given someone like you to love. I never imagined anyone like you Blaire. But every time I think about forever with you Iâ€™m humbled that you chose me. This is your something blue. I love you, Rush
My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Stephen Downes famous quotes

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