Important things Quote by Stephen Greenblatt

“What we face is not a loss of books but the loss of a world. As in Alexandria after Aristotle’s time, or the universities…

— Matthew Battles

The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.

— Thomas A. Edison

“Students exit history textbooks without having developed the ability to think coherently about social life. Even”

— James W. Loewen

“It is understood that when we speak of history we do not allude to the unspeakable trash contained in public school text-books (which in…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

“Each literature bears its freight of the eclipsed; each generation shows us writers in the process of disappearing.”

— Keith Botsford

“Even when all other forms of communication fail, books will remain.”

— George Brockway

If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will be the…

— Judy Blume

“What I worry about most is the loss to young people. If no one speaks out for them, if they don't speak out for…

— Judy Blume

“Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when…

— Peter S. Jennison

“Many people who are simplifying their lives and trying to live with less, exclude books from the decluttering process.”

— Courtney Carver

“For 99 percent of the tenure of humans on earth, nobody could read or write. The great invention had not yet been made. Except…

— Carl Sagan