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School without books

An excellent post on why schools avoid books, using excerts of books contained in anthologies instead, and how that turns kids off to reading.

// posted by bookmoth 9:55 PM

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A well-educated electorate being necessary to the prosperity of a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books, shall not be infringed.

Lacrimosa dies illa,
qua resurget ex favilla
judicandus homo reus. Requiem aeternum dona eis
et lux perpetua luceat eis

Maryland Shall Issue
Georgetown, where I got my BA in psychology and my minor in economics
Catholic U., where I got my MA in psychology. I wrote my final paper on killology, specifially the decision to kill in legitimate combat situations and the traumatic stress of the act of killing

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