Why do we read? What does reading do for our students, our children, our own lives? What are the advantages of having a library and librarians?
I loved this article by Neil Gaiman: he brings up so many ideas that I think we need to be communicating to our students, our parents, our whole world in general.
Why Our Future Depends on Libraries, Reading, and Daydreaming
Would you please read this and let us all know what you think? Maybe give us the part you love, hate, or are planning to put on the wall of your library in vinyl? Or tell me I'm just up in the night. Whatever that particular phase means.
Mine would be,
"We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different."
But ask me again, tomorrow. It will probably be different.
Be well.