“It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible.” NeedsHelpingKidsSchoolEasyParentCommunityBlameLibraryAgentsDisorderUrbanDeficitPlannersSchool Library Author:Richard Louv
“I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.” IfsWorldLittlesSchoolGrewGrew UpTownsPatientLibraryEnthusiasticLibrarianDoorwaysAnother WorldBookstoresTennessee Author:Michael Sims
“Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library.” NeedsChildrenBookSchoolLibraryStoresAccessPublic LibrarySchool Library Author:Katherine Paterson
“A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.” SchoolLibraryFranceVisiting Author:Quentin Blake
“I was a bookworm. Every week I'd go to the library and get seven books. Remember libraries? I wonder if people still go. And I learned about everything from the library. I came from a Scottish family. Old school.” PeopleIfsStillsBookSchoolRememberWonderWeekSevenLibraryScottishOld SchoolBookworms Author:Colin Mochrie
“Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?” IfsSchoolNicePrisonLibraryPublic School Author:Fran Lebowitz
“Just this week, my husband proposed a plan for schools and libraries to develop their own plans to keep children from finding indecent material on the Internet as an alternative to a Congressional proposal that would require a federally mandated solution.” ChildrenSchoolPlansWeekMaterialsInternetHusbandFindingsSolutionsLibraryAlternativesMy HusbandProposal Author:Tipper Gore
“Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries.” SchoolStrongCreativityComputerLibraryWaveLiteracyReservationsUndercut Author:Clifford Stoll
“NYU Film School was the way to learn about film, to be exposed to film, to go to repertory houses, to be exposed to New York and see films. I would go to the library and see one, two or three movies a day.” WayTwoSchoolFilmThreeHouseNew YorkLibraryExposedFilm SchoolNyu Author:Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
“Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and homogenized education, a library offers individual and personalized learning opportunities second to none.” SchoolOpportunityIndividualTeacherOffersLibraryThis DayStorytellerGreat TeacherPublic LibraryPersonalized Author:Julie Andrews