Education

Read the Bill C-61 and find out that:

• C-61 prohibits transferring DVDs to a computer or video player, locks out region coded DVDs - Hands Off Our DVDs!
• C-61 prohibits transferring copy-controlled CD to iPod - Hands Off Our iPods!
• C-61 prohibits recording broadcast flagged TV shows - Hands Off Our PVRs!

Most of us know his portrait, but are we familiar with the flip side of his coin?

A while back, a friend lent me a copy of the book Comment je vois le monde (Champs/Flammarion, 1979). It touches on a topic I have not read much about: Einstein's vision of life. Like many people, I was aware of his achievements in physics and the role he played in the creation of the atomic bomb. Simply said, I knew a lot about the physicist, but not much about the man.

This little book of 189 pages explains through letters, interviews and other writings, Einstein's perspective on a variety of topics: the meaning of life, pacifism, war, religion, good and evil, politics, economics and, of course, physics. One part of the book that particularly caught my attention was Einstein's exposing his views on education.