It was the
romantics who
began mistranslating the Latin word educare (ee - duh - kar» e), the Latin root word for education,
as «to
lead out» or «to unfold,» confusing it with educere (eh - diu» ke - re), which does mean «to
lead out.»
We have barely
begun to scratch the surface of what eBooks can do, and a call to think of eBooks
as something wholly different from our
romantic notion of the hardback will
lead us to some very interesting (and cool) places.