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24
Apr
Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
20
Apr
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
11
Apr
Fragrant candle, a perfume of bookcase.
09
Apr
Shutesbury, Massachusetts, has about 1800 residents. Their little one-room library, circa 1902, was fine when the town had only 400 people and running water was a luxury. But as the video below shows, the library has long since outgrown its physical space. It’s the town’s only high-speed Internet site, but there’s no room to access it in the library, so people drive up and sit in their cars to surf the Web.
Two millages have been put on the ballot in the past two decades; both have lost (the 2011 one by just 41 votes). The state will kick in $2.1 million toward a new library if the town can come up with the additional $1.4 million. (Source)
So there’s a grassroots campaign to raise funds. From Boing Boing to Good.is to The New Yorker, the little M.N. Spear library is working dollar by dollar to raise the money.
Enjoy.
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don’t slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
11
Mar
05
Mar
Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.
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