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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

He makes some very excellent points

Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming--A lecture explaining why using our imaginations, and providing for others to use theirs, is an obligation for all citizens
Do not discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do not like is a route to other books you may prefer. And not everyone has the same taste as you.

Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading: stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like, the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian "improving" literature. You'll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant.

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