Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
Source: amandaonwriting
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Last Folio presents Yuri Dojc‘s photographs from an old Jewish school in eastern Slovakia, a building frozen in time since one day in 1943 in which every teacher and child in the school was sent to concentration camps. Their abrupt departure left the halls and classrooms desolate; the books, their pages, still, until their discovery half a century later.
Source: mythologyofblue
Source: futile-devices
Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it.
Source: writersalmanac.publicradio.org
Bookmobiles of the World
I’ve had a soft spot for bookmobiles ever since I read 1964’s career romance for young moderns, The Girl on the Bookmobile and learned how much pleasure and knowledge these roving libraries could provide!
