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Each new technology provokes illusions about the new possibilities of accessing to knowledge for everybody. This paper deals with various educational offers using the Internet, from the less structured to the more organized. It refers to some researches to enlighten the fact that there is a gap between potential free access to knowledge and real access. It points out the various difficulties met by learners and seldom taken into account by the educational organization, and it stresses the importance of the tutors’ function to allow the ill-equipped ones, which are the more numerous, to gain the autonomy required by this type of learning. It concludes that, without an important investment in that function, the equality of chances and the “freedom of learning” for all, which e-learning pretends or sometimes would like to offer, can only remain myths.