It has become increasingly evident that the Banned Books Awareness column must rise and once again light the darkness of censorship.As most readers are aware by now, the award-winning graphic novel, Maus, has been at the center of a massive censorship effort in McMinn County, Tennessee.I was contacted today...
Language is the most important aspect of the human condition. I am not talking about vocal or gestural communication- most species on this planet do that. I am talking about the written and spoken words that make up the various languages of cultures around the world- my “Je suis”...
A simple idea is having an extraordinary impact on literacy and local communities: take a book, leave a book. Students walk up, open the door of a dollhouse-sized wooden box, and take a book. They can keep it, return it, or replace it with one which they have already...
I have published a new article in my series for Banned Books Awareness and Reading for Knowledge. As always, civil and meaningful discussion is encouraged. There is a growing epidemic among the youth of America. It starts during the grade-school years, when parents curtail the development of critical thinking...
Today is World Book Day!!
Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the greatest gifts my parents ever gave me. -Judy Blume
Today’s daily quote is George Washington Carver’s list of eight cardinal virtues for his students.
Today’s daily quote comes from Neil deGrasse Tyson. “If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.”
Today’s daily #quote is a bit of #wisdom from Isaac Asimov
Books, and the ideals and questions they can present, are banned for personal, ideological, political, or religious reasons. It is often said that to the victor goes the spoils; well, so, too, do the victors write the history books. When that “truth” is threatened the rhetoric and polemic monologues...